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��songs want good echo. After good songs one shall be silent long.

Thus do all these, the higher men. But thou seemest to have understood little of my song. In thee is little of an enchanting spirit."

"Thou praisest me," answered the conscientious one, " by separating me from thee. Go to ! But ye others, what do I see? Ye all still sit there with lustful eyes.

Ye free souls, whither is your freedom gone ! Methinketh, ye are almost like such as have long looked at evil, dancing, naked girls. Your souls them- selves dance !

In you, ye higher men, there must be more of what the wizard calleth his evil spirit of enchantment and deceit. We seem to be very different.

And, verily, we spake and thought enough together, before Zarathustra came home unto his cave, to enable me to know : we are different.

We seek different things, even up here, ye and I. For I seek more security. Therefore have I come unto Zarathustra. For he is the firmest tower and will

To-day when everything is shaken, when the whole earth trembleth. But, when I see the eyes ye make, methinketh almost, ye seek more insecurity,

More shuddering, more danger, more earthquake.- Methinketh almost, ye long (forgive my haughtiness, ye higher men),

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