The solution that our collection aspires to has found an extraordinary application in Friedrich Nietzsche. Not only the thought, but also the most accurate expression of that thought comes from him. "Boldness inwardly and modesty outwardly, after all 'outward' - a German union of virtues, as one once believed - I have found most beautifully in Swiss artists and scholars...". It is evident from these words that Nietzsche wished for every significant compatriot to be able to have his name added as a complement and balance due to biographical circumstances: "- and Switzerland!" How could one hesitate to understand him, his work, and his life under this very sign? The Protestant theologian and writer Carl Albrecht Bernoulli describes Friedrich Nietzsche in this volume.