"That great process, the levelling of European man, is not to be retarded; it should even be accelerated. The necessity for widening gulfs, for social distance and for hierarchy, is thereby established; not the necessity for slowing that process. This levelled species requires a justification, once it has been attained; its justification is the service it provides to a superior, sovereign species who stands upon it and can arise and accomplish its tasks only upon this basis. I am not speaking of a master race whose tasks are thereby limited to governing, but a race with its own sphere of existence, with a surplus of energy for beauty, bravery, culture and manners, even in the most intellectual affairs; an affirmative race which may allow itself to indulge in every great luxury . . . strong enough to have no need of the tyrannical imperatives of virtue, rich enough to have no need of frugality and pedantry, beyond good and evil; a greenhouse for rare and exotic plants."
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, section 898.
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