Without the pathos of distance, the sort which grows out of the deeply rooted difference between the classes, out of the constant gazing outward and downward of the ruling caste on the subjects and work implements, and out of its equally sustained practice of obedience and command, holding down and holding at a distance, that other more mysterious pathos would have no chance of growing at all, that longing for an ever widening of new distances inside the soul itself, the development of ever higher, rarer, more distant, more expansive, more comprehensive states, in short, that very enhancement in the type “man,” the constant “self conquest of man,” to cite a moral formula in a supra moral sense. (F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, chapter 9)