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And as if there were a special secret access to knowledge, which CHOKETH UP for those who learn anything, so do we believe in the people and in their "wisdom." This, however, do all poets believe: that whoever pricketh up his ears when lying in the grass or on lonely slopes, learneth something of the things that are betwixt heaven and earth.
For thuswise would he say and this was a word of his: "Let us rest to-morrow, fellows, since to-day we have fought amain! Let not these men we have smitten come aback on our hands again, And say 'Ye Wolfing warriors, ye have done your work but ill, Fall to now and do it again, like the craftsman who learneth his skill."
Well then, do like me! Thus wilt thou learn also from me; only the doer learneth. And talk first and foremost to mine animals! The proudest animal and the wisest animal they might well be the right counsellors for us both!" Thus spake Zarathustra and went his way, more thoughtfully and slowly even than before: for he asked himself many things, and hardly knew what to answer.
Every Sunday afternoon, in fair weather, he came to teach Myles the art, and being wonderfully adept in bodily feats, he soon grew so quick and active and firm-footed that he could cast any lad under twenty years of age living within a range of five miles. "It is main ungentle armscraft that he learneth," said Lord Falworth one day to Prior Edward.
"And how is it with thee, my daughter?" he demanded. "Well, Father; and I thank you," said she. "Verily, touching outward things, as aforetime; but touching the inward, methinks the good Lord learneth me somewhat." "Be thou an apt scholar," said he. Agnes grew desperate, and resolved to plunge into the matter.
He brought them, He led them, He showed them where to plant their feet, first one step, then another, as mothers do to a child when he learneth first to walk. `As a nurse cherisheth her children, the Apostle saith he dealt with his converts: and the Lord useth yet tenderer image, for `as a mother comforteth her babe, saith He, `will I comfort you. Yea, He bids the Prophet Esaias to learn them, `line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little' look you, how careful is God of His nurse-children. `Feed My Lambs, saith He: and lambs may not nibble so hard as sheep.
Much learning is not evil to a man, though some be stiffly set against it, saying that art puffeth up. Were that so, then were none prouder than God who hath formed all arts, but that cannot be, for God is perfect in goodness. The more, therefore, a man learneth, so much the better doth he become, and so much the more love doth he win for the arts and for things exalted.
That note should be taken of the birth of the child, in what Sign it occurreth; with some explanations. That his form and stature should be considered; with some explanations. How he ought to be nurtured in learning from the first; with some explanations. That the child should be observed, whether he learneth best when kindly praised or when chidden; with explanations.
"And thine own reason this shalt thou thyself stifle and choke; for it is a reason of this world, thereby wilt thou learn thyself to renounce the world." Shatter, shatter, O my brethren, those old tables of the pious! Tatter the maxims of the world-maligners! "He who learneth much unlearneth all violent cravings" that do people now whisper to one another in all the dark lanes.
Verily Thou art mighty in Thy prowess, the Lord of transcendent glory and majesty. Protect Thou, O God, whosoever learneth this prayer by heart and reciteth it in the day-time and in the night season. Verily Thou art God, the Lord of creation, the All-Sufficing. Thou art faithful to Thy promise and doest whatsoever Thou pleasest.
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