Given that Nietzsche's critique of morality hinges so much on his notion of strength and power, you may find it ironic that Nietzsche himself was a very sickly man for most of his life. For the last years of his life, he was vegetative after suffering a severe mental breakdown and late-stage syphilis. He lived out his last years with his sister, who would allow visitors to observe the uncommunicative (and likely insane) Nietzsche. Before his last major breakdown, he was in Turin Italy when he saw a horse that was unable to continue on and was being beaten. Nietzsche reportedly threw his arms around the horse to protect it.
Maybe this is why for Nietzsche, the origin of master morality is spontaneous. Through experiences from his own life he arrives at the notion of the origin of slave morality as a reaction to feeling inferior, "low-born", or "weak", he is unable to know what the dominant, master, felt like. Maybe if he was in a position of power in his own life, he would feel that the origin of master morality was a reaction to something as well, and has its origin in evolution (survival of the fittest). Or.... maybe I'm far fetched, not making any sense, and delirious from hours of logic homework tonight...
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