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" Many lands were seen by Zarathustra, and many peoples : thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power on earth was found by Zarathustra than good and evil.

No people could live that did not, in the first place, value. If it would maintain itself it must not value as its neighbour doth.

Much that one people called good another called scorn and dishonour : thus I found it. Much I found named evil here, adored there with the honours of the purple.

Never did one neighbour understand the other: his soul was ever astonished at his neighbour's self- deception and wickedness.

A table of values hangeth over each people. Be- hold, it is the table of its resignations ; behold, it is the voice of its will unto power.

That is laudable which is reckoned hard; what is indispensable and hard is named good ; and that which freeth from the extremest need, the rare, the hardest, that is praised as holy.

Whatever enableth a people to dominate and con-

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