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 238 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, III

For all things are baptized at the well of eternity, and beyond good and evil. But good and evil them- selves are but inter-shadows and damp afflictions and wandering clouds.

Verily, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy, when I teach: 'Above all things standeth the chance sky, the innocence sky, the hazard sky, the wantonness sky.'

' Sir Hazard ' that is the earliest nobility of the world, which I restored unto all things. I saved them from the slavery of serving an end.

This freedom and clearness of sky I put over all things like an azure bell, when I taught, that above them and through them no ' eternal will ' willeth.

This wantonness and this folly I put in the place of that will when I taught : ' In all things one thing is impossible reasonableness ! '

A little of reasonableness, a seed of wisdom scattered from star to star, it is true, this leaven is mixed with all things. For the sake of folly, wisdom is mixed with all things !

A little of wisdom is well possible. But this bliss- ful security I found in all things : they rather like to dance with chance's feet.

Oh, sky above me ! Thou pure ! Thou high ! Therein consisteth thy purity for me, that there are no eternal spider of reason and spider's nets of reason

That for me thou art a dancing-ground for god-like

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