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 OF GIVING VIRTUE IO5

When ye will one will, and that end of all trouble is called necessity by you : there is the origin of your virtue.

Verily, a new good and evil is your virtue verily, a new deep rushing, and the voice of a new well !

It is power, that new virtue ; one dominating thought it is, and round it a cunning soul : a golden sun, and round it the serpent of knowledge."

��Here Zarathustra was silent a while looking with love upon his disciples. Then he continued to speak thus with a changed voice.

" Remain faithful unto earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue ! Let your giving love and your knowledge serve the significance of earth ! Thus I beg and conjure you.

Let it not fly away from what is earthly and beat against eternal walls with its wings ! Alas, so much virtue hath ever gone astray in flying !

Like me lead back unto earth the virtue which hath gone astray yea, back unto body and life : that it may give its significance unto earth, a human significance.

Spirit and virtue also have hitherto gone astray and mistaken their goals in a hundred ways. Alas, in our body now all these illusions and mistakes still live. Body and will they have become there.

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