“The strongest and most evil spirits have so far done the most to advance humanity: time and again they rekindled the dozing passions - every ordered society puts the passions to sleep -, time and again they reawaken the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in what is new, daring, unattempted; they forced men to pit opinion against opinion, ideal model against model…What is new, however, is under all circumstances evil, being that which wants to conquer, to overthrow the old boundary stones and pieties; and only what is old is good! In every age the good men are those who bury the old thoughts deeply and make them bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But that land is eventually exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must come time and again.” FN
