, on the contrary, we are suspicious of every thinker who wishes to prove something that it was always settled beforehand what the result of their strictest thinking, as it was perhaps in the Asiatic astrology of former times, or as it is still at the present day in the innocent, Christian moral explanation of immediate personal events for the glory of God, or for the good of the soul this tyranny, this arbitrariness, this severe and magnificent stupidity, has the spirit; slavery, both in the coarser and the finer sense, is apparently an indispensable means even of spiritual education and discipline.