 Now Lotze did his best to sugar coat this physiological revelation but not, it seems, in order to make it more palatable; instead he wanted to show, simultaneously, how little we have gained and how little we have lost in its acknowledgement. In reality, the best gloss of Lotze’s overarching strategy – as wrested from its original point of reference – is that “… Lotze takes his reader to the abyss only to pull him back and teach him a lesson. The exercise in metaphysical brinkmanship is designed to show the reader that the only salvation from nihilism, the only way forward in metaphysics, lies in ethics …” (Beiser, 2013, p. 155).