“That the great moments in the struggle of individuals form a chain, that in them the high points of humanity are linked throughout millennia, but what is highest in such a moment of the distant past be for me still alive, bright and great－this is the fundamental thought of the faith in humanity which is expressed in demand for a monumental history. Precisely this demand however, that the great be eternal, occasions the most terrible conflict. For all else which also lives cries no. The monumental ought not arise－that is the counter-watch-word. Dull habit, the small and lowly which fills all corners of the world and wafts like a dense earthly vapor around everything great, deceiving, smothering and suffocating, obstructs the path which the great must still travel to immortality.” (the translated words of Friedrich Nietzsche, written in his 1874 essay entitled: “Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben” as part of his “Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen” of unfashionably observed “Thoughts Out of Season”)