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n. XXXVIII. Scholars. XXXIX. Poets. XL. Great Events. XLI. The Soothsayer. XLII. Redemption. XLIII. Manly Prudence. XLIV. The Stillest Hour. THIRD PART. XLV. The Wanderer. XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma. XLVII. Involuntary Bliss. XLVIII. Before Sunrise. XLIX. The Bedwarfing Virtue. L. On the Olive-Mount. LI. On Passing-by. LII. The Apostates. LIII. The Return Home. LIV. The Three Evil Things. LV. The Spirit of Gravity. LVI. Old and New Tables. LVII. The Convalescent. LVIII. The Great Longing. LIX. The Second Dance-Song. LX. The Seven Seals. FOURTH AND LAST PART. LXI. The Honey Sacrifice. LXII. The Cry of Distress. LXIII. Talk with the Kings. LXIV. The Leech. LXV. The Magician. LXVI. Out of Service. LXVII. The Ugliest Man. LXVIII. The Voluntary Beggar. LXIX. The Shadow. LXX. Noon-Tide. LXXI. The Greeting. LXXII. The Supper. LXIII. The Higher Man. LXXIV. The Song of Melancholy. LXXV. Science. LXXVI. Among Daughters of the Desert. LXXVII. The Awakening. LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival. LXXIX. The Drunken Song. LXXX. The Sign. APPENDIX. Notes on "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Anthony M. Ludovici. INTRODUCTION BY MRS FORSTER-NIETZSCHE. HOW ZARATHUSTRA CAME INTO BEING. "Zarathustra" is my brother's most personal work; it is the history of his most individual experiences, of his friendships, ideals, raptures, bitterest disappointments and sorrows. Above it all, however, there soars, transfiguring it, the image of his greatest hopes and remotest aims. My brother had the figure of Zarathustra in his mind from his very earliest youth: he once told me that even as a child he had dreamt of him. At different periods in his life, he would call this haunter of his dreams by different names; "but in the end," he declares in a note on the subject, "I had to do a PERSIAN the honour of identifying him with this creature of my fancy. Persians were the first to take a broad and comprehensive view of history. Every series of evolutions, according to them, was presided over by a prophet; and every prophet had his 'Hazar,'--his dynasty of a tho
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