primarily against the "ower," in whom the bad conscience now establishes itself, eats, extends, and grows like a polypus throughout its length and breadth, all with such virulence, that at last, with the impossibility of paying the debt, there becomes conceived the idea of the impossibility of paying the penalty, the thought of its inexpiability (the idea of "eternal punishment")-finally, too, it turns against the "creditor," whether found in the causa prima of man, the origin of the human race, its sire, who henceforth becomes burdened with a curse ("Adam," "original sin," "determination of the will"), or in Nature from whose womb man springs, and on whom the responsibility for the principle of evil is now cast ("Diabolisation of Nature"), or in existence generally, on this logic an absolute white elephant, with which mankind is landed (the Nihilistic flight from life, the demand for Nothingness, or for the opposite of existence, for some other existence, Buddhism and the like)-till suddenly we stand before that paradoxical and awful expedient, through which a tortured humanity has found a temporary alleviation, that stroke of genius called Christianity:
gutxienez, "zordun"aren aurka, zeinengan hemendik aurrera kontzientzia txarra hainbesteraino kokatu, marraskatu, hedatu eta hazten baita, polipo bat bezala, zabalera guztian eta sakonera guztian, zein erruaren iraungiezintasunarekin batera espiazioaren iraungiezintasuna ere azkenerako kontzebitzen baita, horren ordainezintasuna ("betiko zigorra")-; baina, azkenean, "hartzekodun"aren aurka ere bihurtzen da, nahiz pentsatu gizakiaren causa priman, gizajendearen hasieran, horren progenitorearengan, zein orain madarikatzen den ("Adam", "jatorrizko bekatua", "nahimenaren askatasun falta"), edo naturan, zeinen altzotik sortzen baita gizakia, eta zeinean orain printzipio txarra kokatzen baita ("naturaren deabrukuntza"), edo existentzian oro har, zein bere baitan ez-baliozko gisa gelditzen baita (existentziaren urruntze nihilista, ezerezaren desira edo bere "aurkakoa"ren desira, beste-izatearena, budismoarena eta antzekoena)-, harik eta gizateria martiriotuak une bateko arindua aurkitu zuen baliabide paradoxazko eta ikaragarriarekin bat-batean topo egiten dugun arte, kristautasunaren jeinu-kolpe haren aurrean: