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 OF THE PALE CRIMINAL

" Ye are not going to slay, ye judges and sacrificers, before the animal hath nodded. Behold, the pale criminal hath nodded : from his eye there speaketh the great contempt.

' Mine I is a something that shall be surpassed : for me mine I is the great contempt of man : ' thus something speaketh out of that eye.

His highest moment was when he judged himself : let not the sublime one fall back into his lower state !

There is no salvation for him who thus suffereth from himself unless it be speedy death.

Your slaying, ye judges, shall be pity and not revenge. And whilst slaying take care to justify life itself !

It is not enough that ye should be reconciled unto him whom ye are slaying. Let your sorrow be love unto beyond-man : thus ye justify your still living.

' Enemy ' ye shall say, but not ' wicked one ' ; ' diseased one ' ye shall say, but not ' wretch ' ; 'fool' ye shall say, but not 'sinner.'

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