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In the past few weeks, I learned something very important: I discovered the Code of Manu. This entirely Aryan product, a sacerdotal moral code based on the Vedas, on the idea of castes, and on ancient traditions—the character of which is not pessimistic, although it is still quite sacerdotal—this product completes my ideas on religion in a most curious way. I must admit having the impression that everything else we know of great moral codes seems to be simply an imitation thereof, if not a caricature, beginning with Egyptian morality; and it seems to me that even Plato himself was merely well educated by a Brahman. In addition, the Jews give the impression of a race of Chandalas who learned from their masters the principles, according to which a priestly caste ascends to power and organizes a people and the Chinese, too, seem to have produced their Confucius and Lao-tse under the influence of this ancient classical lawbook. Medieval institutions look like a fabulous attempt to recover all the ideas, upon which ancient Indo-Aryan society was based—but with pessimistic values that have their origin in the basis of racial decadence. —The Jews seem, here as well, to be simply “imitators”—they invent nothing
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