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 to which it alludes, as I hope elsewhere to prove; the sudden prominence or ‘call’ of a leader named Zarathushtra must have been a still effective circumstance, and not merely a remembered tradition, although it must have taken some little time for it to acquire its poetical settlement; yet, as we see, it was evidently put together for the purpose of securing the recognition of Zarathushtra's leadership and of consolidating his authority.

The form is also graphic, and in the higher sense truly poetical.