It is often enough and always with great surprise intimated to me that there is something both ordinary and unusual in all my writings from the "Birth of Tragedy" to the recently published "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future": they all contain I have been told snares and nets for short sighted birds and something that is almost a constant subtle incitement to an overturning of habitual opinions and of approved customs. What!? Everything is merely human all too human? With this exclamation my writings are gone through not without a certain dread and mistrust of ethic itself and not without a disposition to ask the exponent of evil things if those things be not simply misrepresented. My writings have been termed a school of distrust still more of disdain: also and more happily of courage audacity even.