 This reading, however, does not withstand scrutiny, as Thomas Brobjer (1998) has argued. As Brobjer notes, the only other published discussion of the laws of Manu, in Twilight of the Idols, is highly critical, not laudatory (pp. 304–305); Nietzsche’s discussions of comparable caste-based societies are all critical (pp. 308–309); and Nietzsche’s unpublished notebooks contain numerous entries on the theme “a critique of the Laws of Manu” (pp. 310–312). The passage from The Antichrist only seems laudatory when read out of context; as Brobjer remarks: