“How goodness heightens beauty!”
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
