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2 was led to admit the enormous extent of that mistake. In the same way man has connected all things in existence with morals, and dressed up the world in a garb of ethical significance. The day will come when all this will be as utterly valueless as is already in our days the belief in the masculinity or femininity of the sun.

A word against the fancied inharmoniousness of the spheres.—We must rid the world of much false grandeur, this being nowise consonant with that justice to which all things around us may lay claim. For that purpose we must abstain from picturing the world to ourselves more inharmonious than it is.

Be thankful.—The most important outcome of human efforts in the past is, that we need no more live in constant dread of wild beasts, barbarians, gods and our own dreams.

The juggler and his counterpart.—The wonderful in science is opposite to the wonderful in the juggler's art. For lie tries to persuade us to believe in a very simple causality were, in fact, a very complex causality is at work. Science, on the contrary, compels us to abandon our belief in simple causalities in the very