What he most dislikes about ‘herd morality’ is that it arose not through affirmation of their own way of life (like the codes of the higher classes) but through the negation of someone else’s: they looked at the vigorous, free, proud, self-assured, self-assertive people who ruled them, resentfully declared their qualities to be bad and hence the opposite qualities, such as passivity, servitude, humility, unselfishness, to be good.
