Lashmar found the matter considerably to his taste, though he ridiculed the form.

Nietzsche's individualism was, up to a certain point, in full harmony with the tone of his mind; he enjoyed this frank contempt of the average man, persuaded that his own place was on the seat of the lofty, and that disdain of the humdrum, in life or in speculation, had always been his strong point.

To be sure, he counted himself Nietzsche's superior as a moralist; as a thinker, he imagined himself much more scientific.

But, having regard to his circumstances and his hopes, this glorification of unscrupulous strength came opportunely.

Refining away its grosser aspects, Dyce took the philosophy to heart--much more sincerely than he had taken to himself the humanitarian bio-sociology on which he sought to build his reputation.
And Constance, for her part, was hardly less interested in Nietzsche.
She, too, secretly liked this insistence on the right of the strong, for she felt herself one of them.