This was the most fatal kind of megalomania that had ever yet existed on earth: insignificant little abortions of bigots and liars began to lay sole claim to the concepts God, Truth, Light, Spirit, Love, Wisdom, Life, as if these things were, so to speak, synonyms of themselves, in order to fence themselves off from the world little ultra Jews, ripe for every kind of madhouse, twisted values round in order to suit themselves, just as if the Christian, alone, were the meaning, the salt, the standard and even the ultimate tribunal of all the rest of mankind.