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All on a sudden however, Zarathustra's ear was frightened: for the cave which had hitherto been full of noise and laughter, became all at once still as death; his nose, however, smelt a sweet-scented vapour and incense-odour, as if from burning pine-cones. "What happeneth? What are they about?" he asked himself, and stole up to the entrance, that he might be able unobserved to see his guests.
"The spiritually conscientious one," he is called in this discourse. Zarathustra steps on him unawares, and the slave of science, bleeding from the violence he has done to himself by his self-imposed task, speaks proudly of his little sphere of knowledge his little hand's breadth of ground on Zarathustra's territory, philosophy.
"Zarathustra's ape" he is called in the discourse. He is one of those at whose hands Nietzsche had to suffer most during his life-time, and at whose hands his philosophy has suffered most since his death. In this respect it may seem a little trivial to speak of extremes meeting; but it is wonderfully apt.
Then it became yet stiller and more mysterious, and everything hearkened, even the ass, and Zarathustra's noble animals, the eagle and the serpent, likewise the cave of Zarathustra and the big cool moon, and the night itself. Ye higher men, it is getting on to midnight: then will I say something into your ears, as that old clock-bell saith it into mine ear,
And again did Zarathustra's feet run through mountains and forests, and his eyes sought and sought, but nowhere was he to be seen whom they wanted to see the sorely distressed sufferer and crier. On the whole way, however, he rejoiced in his heart and was full of gratitude. "What good things," said he, "hath this day given me, as amends for its bad beginning!
Sing now yourselves the song, the name of which is "Once more," the signification of which is "Unto all eternity!" sing, ye higher men, Zarathustra's roundelay! O man! Take heed! What saith deep midnight's voice indeed? "I slept my sleep , "From deepest dream I've woke, and plead: "The world is deep, "And deeper than the day could read.
Zarathustra's habit of designating a whole class of men or a whole school of thought by a single fitting nickname may perhaps lead to a little confusion at first; but, as a rule, when the general drift of his arguments is grasped, it requires but a slight effort of the imagination to discover whom he is referring to.
When, however, this took place with the ugliest man, Zarathustra stood there like one drunken: his glance dulled, his tongue faltered and his feet staggered. And who could divine what thoughts then passed through Zarathustra's soul?
And what it fetched and foraged, it laid on Zarathustra's couch: so that Zarathustra at last lay among yellow and red berries, grapes, rosy apples, sweet-smelling herbage, and pine-cones. At his feet, however, two lambs were stretched, which the eagle had with difficulty carried off from their shepherds.
Then he sighed and spake thus to his heart: "Would that I were wiser! Would that I were wise from the very heart, like my serpent! But I am asking the impossible. Therefore do I ask my pride to go always with my wisdom! And if my wisdom should some day forsake me: alas! it loveth to fly away! may my pride then fly with my folly!" Thus began Zarathustra's down-going.
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