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who is submissive ; and there is also wisdom that is submissive and dog-like and pious and quick to oblige.

Hateful and loathsome unto it is he who careth not to defend himself, who swalloweth down poison- ous spittle and evil looks, the all-too-patient one, the sufferer of everything, the all-too-contented one ; for that is the way of slaves.

Whether one be servile before Gods and divine kicks ; whether he be so before men and silly human opinions at all the slave tribe it spitteth, that blessed selfishness !

Bad thus it calleth all that is broken and nig- gardly-servile, unfree blinking eyes, pressed-down hearts, and that false yielding tribe that kisseth with broad cowardly lips.

And spurious wisdom thus selfishness calleth all the quibbles of slaves and old men and weary ones ; and in particular the whole bad, mad, over-witty priest-foolishness !

The spurious wise men, however, all the priests, the weary of the world, and those whose souls are of the tribe of women and slaves, oh ! how well hath their play ever abused selfishness !

And this very thing, to ill-use selfishness, was pro- claimed to be virtue and to be called virtue ! And ' unselfish ' thus, with good reason, all those cowards weary of the world and cross-spiders wished to be !

And for all those the day now cometh, the change,

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