Is it not possible, however, that the necessity may now have arisen of again making up our minds with regard to the reversing and fundamental shifting of values, owing to a new self consciousness and acuteness in man is it not possible that we may be standing on the threshold of a period which to begin with, would be distinguished negatively as nowadays when, at least among us immoralists, the suspicion arises that the decisive value of an action lies precisely in that which is and that all its intentionalness, all that is seen, sensible, or sensed in it, belongs to its surface or skin which, like every skin, betrays something, but still more?