No More Learning

The Wanderer. —He who has attained in-
tellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for
a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a
wanderer on the face of the earth—and not even
as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no
such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and


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404 HUMAN, ALL-TOO-HUMAN.
greatly predominate, are always reckoned upon
when the thinker comports himself and labels
himself as a genius, and thus views himself as a
higher being to whom authority belongs. In so
far as genius of this kind upholds the ardour of
convictions, and arouses distrust of the cautious
and modest spirit of science, it is an enemy of
truth, however much it may think itself the
wooer thereof.
636.
There is, certainly, also an entirely different
species of genius, that of justice; and I cannot
make up my mind to estimate it lower than any
kind of philosophical, political, or artistic genius.
Its peculiarity is to go, with heartfelt aversion, out
of the way of everything that blinds and confuses
people's judgment of things; it is consequently
an adversary of convictions, for it wants to give
their own to all, whether they be living or dead,
real or imaginary—and for that purpose it must
know thoroughly; it therefore places everything
in the best light and goes around it with careful
eyes. Finally, it will even give to its adversary
the blind or short-sighted "conviction" (as men
call it,—among women it is called "faith "), what
is due to conviction—for the sake of truth,
637.
Opinions evolve out of passions; indolence of
intellect allows those to congeal into convictions.
He, however, who is conscious of himself as a
free, restless, lively spirit, can prevent this conge-


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MAN ALONE BY HIMSELF. 405
lation by constant change; and if he is altogether
a thinking snowball, he will not have opinions in
his head at all, but only certainties and properly
estimated probabilities. But we, who are of a
mixed nature, alternately inspired with ardour
and chilled through and through by the intellect,
want to kneel before justice, as the only goddess
we acknowledge. The fire in us generally makes
us unjust, and impure in the eyes of our goddess;
in this condition we are not permitted to take
her hand, and the serious smile of her approval
never rests upon us. We reverence her as the
veiled Isis of our life; with shame we offer her
our pain as penance and sacrifice when the fire
threatens to burn and consume us. It is the
intellect that saves us from being utterly burnt and
reduced to ashes; it occasionally drags us away
from the sacrificial altar of justice or enwraps us
in a garment of asbestos. Liberated from the
fire, and impelled by the intellect, we then pass
from opinion to opinion, through the change of
parties, as noble betrayers of all things that can
in any way be betrayed—and nevertheless with-
out a feeling of guilt.
638.
The Wanderer. —He who has attained in-
tellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for
a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a
wanderer on the face of the earth—and not even
as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no
such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and


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404 HUMAN, ALL-TOO-HUMAN.
greatly predominate, are always reckoned upon
when the thinker comports himself and labels
himself as a genius, and thus views himself as a
higher being to whom authority belongs. In so
far as genius of this kind upholds the ardour of
convictions, and arouses distrust of the cautious
and modest spirit of science, it is an enemy of
truth, however much it may think itself the
wooer thereof.
636.
There is, certainly, also an entirely different
species of genius, that of justice; and I cannot
make up my mind to estimate it lower than any
kind of philosophical, political, or artistic genius.
Its peculiarity is to go, with heartfelt aversion, out
of the way of everything that blinds and confuses
people's judgment of things; it is consequently
an adversary of convictions, for it wants to give
their own to all, whether they be living or dead,
real or imaginary—and for that purpose it must
know thoroughly; it therefore places everything
in the best light and goes around it with careful
eyes. Finally, it will even give to its adversary
the blind or short-sighted "conviction" (as men
call it,—among women it is called "faith "), what
is due to conviction—for the sake of truth.
637-
Opinions evolve out of passions; indolence of
intellect allows those to congeal into convictions.
He, however, who is conscious of himself as a
free, restless, lively spirit, can prevent this conge-


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MAN ALONE BY HIMSELF. 405
lation by constant change; and if he is altogether
a thinking snowball, he will not have opinions in
his head at all, but only certainties and properly
estimated probabilities. But we, who are of a
mixed nature, alternately inspired with ardour
and chilled through and through by the intellect,
want to kneel before justice, as the only goddess
we acknowledge. The yzr^ in us generally makes
us unjust, and impure in the eyes of our goddess;
in this condition we are not permitted to take
her hand, and the serious smile of her approval
never rests upon us. We reverence her as the
veiled Isis of our life; with shame we offer her
our pain as penance and sacrifice when the fire
threatens to burn and consume us. It is the
intellect that saves us from being utterly burnt and
reduced to ashes; it occasionally drags us away
from the sacrificial altar of justice or enwraps us
in a garment of asbestos. Liberated from the
fire, and impelled by the intellect, we then pass
from opinion to opinion, through the change of
parties, as noble betrayers of all things that can
in any way be betrayed—and nevertheless with-
out a feeling of guilt.
638.
The Wanderer. —He who has attained in-
tellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for
a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a
wanderer on the face of the earth—and not even
as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no
such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and


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406 HUMAN, ALL-TOO-HUMAN.
keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens
lin the world; therefore he cannot attach his
heart too firmly to anything individual; he must
'have in himself something wandering that takes
pleasure in change and transitoriness. To be
sure such a man will have bad nights, when he
is weary and finds the gates of the town that
should offer him rest closed; perhaps he may
also find that, as in the East, the desert reaches
to the gates, that wild beasts howl far and near,
that a strong wind arises, and that robbers take
away his beasts of burden. Then the dreadful
night closes over him like a second desert upon
the desert, and his heart grows weary of wander-
ing. Then when the morning sun rises upon
him, glowing like a Deity of anger, when the
town is opened, he sees perhaps in the faces of
the dwellers therein still more desert, uncleanli-
ness, deceit, and insecurity than outside the gates
—and the day is almost worse than the night.
Thus it may occasionally happen to the wanderer;
but then there come as compensation the delight-
ful mornings of other lands and days, when already
in the grey of the dawn he sees the throng of
muses dancing by, close to him, in the mist of
the mountain; when afterwards, in the symmetry
of his ante-meridian soul, he strolls silently under
the trees, out of whose crests and leafy hiding-
places all manner of good and bright things are
flung to him, the gifts of all the free spirits who
are at home in mountains, forests, and solitudes,
and who, like himself, alternately merry and
thoughtful, are wanderers and philosophers. Born


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MAN ALONE BY HIMSELF. 407
of the secrets of the early dawn, they ponder the
question how the day, between the hours of ten
and twelve, can have such a pure, transparent,
and gloriously cheerful countenance: they seek
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AN EPODE.
AMONG FRIENDS.
(Translatedby T. COMMON. )
Nice, when mute we lie a-dreaming,
Nicer still when we are laughing,
'Neath the sky heaven's chariot speeding,
On the moss the book a-reading,
Sweetly loud with friends all laughing
Joyous, with white teeth a-gleaming.
Do I well, we're mute and humble;
Do I ill—we'll laugh exceeding;
Make it worse and worse, unheeding,
Worse proceeding, more laughs needing,
Till into the grave we stumble.
Friends! Yea! so shall it obtain?
Amen! Till we meet again.
II.
No excuses need be started!
Give, ye glad ones, open hearted,


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4IO HUMAN, ALL-TOO-HUMAN.
To this foolish book before you
Ear and heart and lodging meet;
Trust me, 'twas not meant to bore you,
Though of folly I may treat!
What I find, seek, and am needing,
Was it e'er in book for reading?
Honour now fools in my name,
Learn from out this book by reading
How "our sense" from reason came.
Thus, my friends, shall it obtain?
Amen! Till we meet again.


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THE WORKS OF
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OTHER NIETZSCHEAN LITERATURE
ON THE TRACKS OF LIFE:
THE IMMORALITY OF MORALITY.
Translated from the Italian of Leo G. Sera by
J. M. Kennedy.
With an Introduction by Dr. Oscar Levy.
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many new and startling theories in regard to the questions he
treats of in support of his views. He holds that the diffusion
of democratic principles is vulgarising science and art, and
that present social conditions, especially work and Christian
teaching, are leading to the intellectual and moral degen-
eration of the race. Stimulating chapters on Stendhal,
Nietzsche, Goethe, The Origin of Society, Work, and the
Aristocratic Ideal, show current opinions of Genius, Aristo-
cracy, Democracy, Sport, and Sexuality in a new light.
Scientific thought is put upon a new basis more in conformity
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"Written with a vigour and freshness rarely met with in works of
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lectual quickening and expansion. "—Western Morning News.
"A vigorously written bit of work, packed full of shrewd
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'' The volume contains many obiter dicta of great shrewdness,
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OTHER NIETZSCHEAN LITERATURE
WHO IS TO BE MASTER OF
THE WORLD?
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By A. M. LUDOVICI.
With a Preface by Dr. Oscar Levy.
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In this book the author has made a plain and lucid
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Three Lectures recently given at University College,
London, and other matter besides—together with copious
references to the numerous philosophers, historians, and
scientists who may be said to have led up to Friedrich
Nietzsche's position.
"The lectures are well worth reading, as showing what Nietzsche-
anism really means. "—Glasgow Herald.
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OTHER NIETZSCHEAN LITERATURE
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