As this is growing wearisome, I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits and the tasks they have to perform, the subtle, barbed, Jesuitical astuteness, which is a thousand times subtler than the taste and understanding of the middle class in its best moments subtler even than the understanding of its victims: a repeated proof that instinct is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered.