The Leap

With increasing passion, he said: ‘I shall murder five hundred men with my bare hands, with rusty hatchets, with garrotting wires, with guns, knives and poisons and stain my soul so red it’s past all your religious redemptions—if it will make our species great! And when Lachanell is dead, I shall deal with Purchamp. He shan’t bait me like a low criminal!

and that the road to freedom is as narrow as the eye of a needle. The fact remains that the instinct of Stirner and Nietzsche is right, no matter how wrong they may be on certain particulars, while the instinct of altruistic do-gooders like Bertrand Russell is somehow fundamentally wrong, being based upon a simplistic and rather silly view of reality.