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 OF HIGHER MAN

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��Queerly they exert themselves, like an elephant which exerteth itself to stand on its head.

But it is better still to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune ; better to dance clumsily than to walk lame. Learn my wisdom from me, I pray. But even the worst thing hath two good reverse sides.

Even the worst thing hath good dancing legs. Learn, I pray, ye higher men, how to put yourselves on your right legs !

, Unlearn, I pray, all the horn-blowing of affliction, and all mob-sadness ! Oh, how sad seem unto me to-day the mob's buffoons ! But to-day is of the mob.

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Do like the wind when it rusheth forth from its mountain caves. Unto its own pipe it will dance. The seas tremble and leap beneath its footsteps.

Praised be that good unruly spirit which giveth wings unto asses ; which milketh lionesses ; which cometh like a stormblast unto all To-day and all mob ;

Which is an enemy unto all heads of thistles, and minds that pry into things, and unto all withered leaves and tares ! Praised be that wild, good, free spirit of the storm which danceth on moors and afflictions as on meadows ;

Which hateth the dwindling dogs of the mob, and

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