At the base of all these aristocratic races the predator is not
to be mistaken, the splendorous blond beast, avidly rampant for
plunder and victory.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
It is either through the influence of narcotic potio of which
all primitive peoples and races speak in hymns, or through the
powerful approach of spring, penetrating with joy all of nature, that
those Dionysian stirrings arise, which in their intensification lead
the individual to forget himself completely....
