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334 But always in the human form! How? Am I always to watch the same comedy, act in the same comedy, without ever being able to see the things with other eyes than these? And yet there may be innumerable species of beings whose organs are better fitted for knowledge than ours. What will mankind have come to discern at the end of all their discernment ?—their organs! Which means, perhaps, the impossibility of knowledge! Misery and disgust !—-B: This is a severe attack—reason is attacking you! But to-morrow you will again be in the midst of knowledge and, at the same time, of irrationality; I mean, of the delight in things human. Let us up and go to the sea!

—When we take the decisive step, choosing to pursue our own course, a secret is suddenly revealed to us: whosoever has been friendly and intimate with us,—all have hitherto fancied themselves superior to us and are offended. The best among them are lenient and wait patiently until we shall again find the “right course,""—they evidently know it.— Others rail at us and behave as though we had become temporarily insane, or spitefully point out a seductor, The ill-inclined declare us to be vain fools and endeavour to blacken our motives; and the worst see in us their worst enemy, one who is thirsting after revenge for long years of subjection,—and are afraid of us. What are