Nordman---Ännu glöder solen

The beginning

. . humanity, there is no doubt, is becoming constantly “better.” . . .  Europe’s fate lies right here—with the fear of man we also have lost the love for him, the reverence for him, the hope for him, indeed, our will to him. A glimpse at man nowadays makes us tired—what is contemporary nihilism, if it is not that? . . .We are weary of man. . . .

(On the Genealogy of Morals - A Polemical Tract by Friedrich Nietzsche, I,12. From Johnstonia, http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/index.htm)