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It means the worship of mediocrity and the hatred of excellence.

It means the impossibility of great men – how could great men submit to the indignities and indecencies of an election?

What chance would they have?

What is hated by the people, as a wolf by the dogs, is the free spirit, the enemy of all fetters, the not-adorer, the man who is not a regular party-member.

How can the Superman arise in such a soil? And how can a nation become great when its greatest men lie unused, discouraged, perhaps unknown? Such a society loses character; imitation is horizontal instead of vertical – not the superior man but the majority man becomes the ideal and the model; everybody comes to resemble everybody else; even the sexes approximate – the men become women and the women become men.