There are truths that are recognized best by mediocre minds because they are the most congenial to them; there are truths that have charm and seductive powers only for mediocre spirits: we come up against this perhaps disagreeable proposition just now, since the spirit of respectable but mediocre Englishmen - I name Darwin, John Stuart Mill, and Herbert Spencer - is beginning to predominate in the middle regions of European taste.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 253 (1886)

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