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170 Let all the men of These States stand aside for a
 * few smouchers! Let the few seize on what they
 * choose! Let the rest gawk, giggle, starve, obey!

Let shadows be furnished with genitals! Let substances
 * be deprived of their genitals!

Let there be wealthy and immense cities—but
 * through any of them, not a single poet, saviour,
 * knower, lover!

Let the infidels of These States laugh all faith away!
 * If one man be found who has faith, let the rest
 * set upon him! Let them affright faith! Let
 * them destroy the power of breeding faith!

Let the she-harlots and the he-harlots be prudent!
 * Let them dance on, while seeming lasts! (O
 * seeming! seeming! seeming!)

Let the preachers recite creeds! Let them teach only
 * what they have been taught!

Let the preachers of creeds never dare to go meditate
 * candidly upon the hills, alone, by day or by
 * night! (If one ever once dare, he is lost!)

Let insanity have charge of sanity! Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers,
 * clouds!

Let the daubed portraits of heroes supersede heroes! Let the manhood of man never take steps after itself!
 * Let it take steps after eunuchs, and after consumptive
 * and genteel persons!

Let the white person tread the black person under his
 * heel! (Say! which is trodden under heel, after
 * all?)

Let the reflections of the things of the world be studied
 * in mirrors! Let the things themselves continue
 * unstudied!