ng to the fact that the history of morals is a history of conflict between two differing moral attitudes, the attitudes of Rome and the attitudes of Judea, the attitudes of higher man and the attitudes of the masses. The herd tries to impose its morality universally, and it has succeeded in doing this in the West through Christianity. Nietzsche in the first chapter discusses the opposing forces of good and bad, good and evil, and he says they have been engaged in a fearful struggle for thousands of years. The symbol of this struggle is Rome against Judea, and Nietzsche also refers to the way Rome treated the Jew and the way the Jew felt about this treatment, producing the resentment that in turn created a different morality. Nietzsche says at one point that the distinction between good and evil has been on top in the struggle for a long time (Nietzsche, Genealogy 52), and
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