They are appealing to the marble Apollo.

And the curious disappearance of satire from our literature is an instance of the fierce things fading for want of any principle to be fierce about.
Nietzsche had some natural talent for sarcasm: he could sneer, though he could not laugh; but there is always something bodiless and without weight in his satire, simply because it has not any mass of common morality behind it.

He is himself more preposterous than anything he denounces.

But, indeed, Nietzsche will stand very well as the type of the whole of this failure of abstract violence.

The softening of the brain which ultimately overtook him was not a physical accident.