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fountains burst forth. And whoever calleth out: "Lo, here is a well for many thirsty ones, one heart for many longing ones, one will for many instruments":--around him collecteth a PEOPLE, that is to say, many attempting ones. Who can command, who must obey--THAT IS THERE ATTEMPTED! Ah, with what long seeking and solving and failing and learning and re-attempting! Human society: it is an attempt--so I teach--a long seeking: it seeketh however the ruler!-- --An attempt, my brethren! And NO "contract"! Destroy, I pray you, destroy that word of the soft-hearted and half-and-half! 26. O my brethren! With whom lieth the greatest danger to the whole human future? Is it not with the good and just?-- --As those who say and feel in their hearts: "We already know what is good and just, we possess it also; woe to those who still seek thereafter! And whatever harm the wicked may do, the harm of the good is the harmfulest harm! And whatever harm the world-maligners may do, the harm of the good is the harmfulest harm! O my brethren, into the hearts of the good and just looked some one once on a time, who said: "They are the Pharisees." But people did not understand him. The good and just themselves were not free to understand him; their spirit was imprisoned in their good conscience. The stupidity of the good is unfathomably wise. It is the truth, however, that the good MUST be Pharisees--they have no choice! The good MUST crucify him who deviseth his own virtue! That IS the truth! The second one, however, who discovered their country--the country, heart and soil of the good and just,--it was he who asked: "Whom do they hate most?" The CREATOR, hate they most, him who breaketh the tables and old values, the breaker,--him they call the law-breaker. For the good--they CANNOT create; they are always the beginning of the end:-- --They crucify him who writeth new values on new tables, they sacrifice UNTO THEMSELVES the future--they crucify the whole human future! The good--they have always been the beginning of the end.-- 27. O my brethren, have ye also understood this word? And what I once said of the "last man"?-- With whom lieth the greatest danger to the whole human future? Is it not with the good and just? BREAK UP, BREAK UP, I PRAY YOU, THE GOOD AND JUST!--O my brethren, have ye understood also this word? 28. Ye flee from me? Ye are frightened? Ye tremble at this word? O
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