Edited sentence: "  A few pages later, Kira said to Andrei, "What are your masses but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it."  Her revision deleted this sentence."  In the second edition, this became, "I loathe your ideals."  Some of the changes, however, appear to have philosophical significance.' New York: Macmillan, p.92, Kira said to Andrei, "I loathe your ideals.According to Ronald Merrill, Kira in the first edition "adopts in the most explicit terms possible the ethical position of Friedrich Nietzsche.I admire your methods.In her introduction to the 1959 edition, Rand declared that "In brief, all the changes are merely editorial line changes.In the first edition<ref name="1sted92">Rand, Ayn (1936).Nearly anyone who reads We the Living" today will be reading the second edition.The first edition has long since become a rare book.The significance of the revisions has been debated.We the Living