For just as the people separates the lightning from its flash and takes the latter as an action, as an operation on the part of a subject called lightning, so popular morality separates strength from expressions of strength, as if there were a neutral substratum behind the strong man which was free to express strength or not to do so. But there is no such substratum; there is no ‘being’ behind doing, operating, becoming; ‘the doer’ is merely added to the deed – the deed is everything.
