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The mightiest men have hitherto always bowed reverently before the Saint ↖ Beyond Good and Evil , as the enigma of Self-subjugation ↖ Beyond Good and Evil ↖ Self Development and utter voluntary privation—why did they thus bow? They divined in him—and as it were behind the questionableness of his frail and wretched appearance—the superior force which wished to test itself by such a subjugation; the strength of will, in which they recognized their own strength and love of power, and knew how to honour it: they honoured something in themselves when they honoured the saint. In addition to this, the contemplation of the saint suggested to them a suspicion: such an enormity of self-negation and anti-naturalness will not have been coveted for nothing—they have said, inquiringly. There is perhaps a reason for it, some very great danger, about which the Ascetic ↖ Beyond Good and Evil might wish to be more accurately informed through his secret interlocutors and visitors? In a word, the mighty ones of the world learned to have a new fear before him, they divined a new power, a strange, still unconquered enemy:—it was the “ Will to Power ↖ Beyond Good and Evil ↖ Nietzschean Concepts ↖ Will Concepts ” which obliged them to halt before the saint. They had to question him.