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Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968). rn The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Friedrich Nietzsche

(German philosopher, 1844–1900, whose lofty utterance has suffered from materialistic interpreters)

WHEN Zarathustra came into the next city, which lay beside the forest, he found in that place much people gathered together in the market; for they had been called that they should see a rope-dancer. And Zarathustra spoke thus unto the people:

“I teach ye the Over-man. The man is something who shall be overcome. What have ye done to overcome him?

“All being before this made something beyond itself: and you will be the ebb of this great flood, and rather go back to the beast than overcome the man?

“What is the ape to the man? A mockery or a painful shame. And even so shall man be to the Over-man: a mockery or a painful shame.

“Man is a cord, tied between Beast and Over-man—a cord above an abyss.

“A perilous arriving, a perilous traveling, a perilous looking backward, a perilous trembling and standing still.

“What is great in man is that he is a bridge, and no goal; what can be loved in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

“I love them that know not how to live, be it even as those going under, for such are those going across.

“I love them that are great in scorn, because these are they that are great in reverence, and arrows of longing toward the other shore!”