The Reading Selection from Beyond
Good and Evil
[Origin of Aristocracy]
257. Every elevation of the type “man,” has hitherto been the work of an
aristocratic society and so it will always be—a society believing in a long
scale of gradations of rank and differences of worth among human beings,
and requiring slavery in some form or other. Without the pathos of distance, such as grows out of the incarnated difference of classes, out of the
constant out-looking and down-looking of the ruling caste on subordinates
and instruments, and out of their equally constant practice of obeying and
commanding, of keeping down and keeping at a distance—that other more
mysterious pathos could never have arisen, the longing for an ever new
widening of distance within the soul itself, the formation of ever higher,
rarer, further, more extended, more comprehensive states, in short, just the
elevation of the type “man,” the continued “self-surmounting of man,” to
use a moral formula in a supermoral sense.
To be sure, one must not resign oneself to any humanitarian illusions about
the history of the origin of an aristocratic society (that is to say, of the preliminary condition for the elevation of the type “man”): the truth is hard.
https://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/articles/nietzsche-a.pdf
The Reading Selection from Beyond
Good and Evil
[Origin of Aristocracy]
257. Every elevation of the type “man,” has hitherto been the work of an
aristocratic society and so it will always be—a society believing in a long
scale of gradations of rank and differences of worth among human beings,
and requiring slavery in some form or other. Without the pathos of distance, such as grows out of the incarnated difference of classes, out of the
constant out-looking and down-looking of the ruling caste on subordinates
and instruments, and out of their equally constant practice of obeying and
commanding, of keeping down and keeping at a distance—that other more
mysterious pathos could never have arisen, the longing for an ever new
widening of distance within the soul itself, the formation of ever higher,
rarer, further, more extended, more comprehensive states, in short, just the
elevation of the type “man,” the continued “self-surmounting of man,” to
use a moral formula in a supermoral sense.
To be sure, one must not resign oneself to any humanitarian illusions about
the history of the origin of an aristocratic society (that is to say, of the preliminary condition for the elevation of the type “man”): the truth is hard.
https://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/articles/nietzsche-a.pdf