PREFACE 



rather strengthened and furthered in the con- 

 sciousness of his own ethical powers. He then 

 appears to me so much more triumphant above 

 his animal nature, standing victoriously above the 

 dark foundation of his own existence. Man and 

 his history reach back into the primitive world 

 of animal monsters, but this animal nature, this 

 primitive world, lies prostrate at his feet over- 

 come by himself. 



WlLHELM BOELSCHE. 



Friedrichshagen, 

 New Year's Day, 1904. 



