126 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, II
tones hitherto have been even the most comprehen- sive souls !
Signs of blood have been written by them on the way they went, and it was taught by their folly that truth is proved by blood.
But blood is the worst of all witnesses for truth ; blood even poisoneth the purest teaching and turneth it into delusion and hatred of hearts.
And when a man goeth through fire for his teaching what is proved thereby ? Verily, it is more when one's own teaching springeth from one's own burning.
A sultry heart and a cool head, where these hap- pen to meet, the blusterer ariseth, the ' saviour.'
Verily, there have been much greater ones and more highly born ones than those whom folk call saviours, those ravishing blusterers.
And ye, my brethren, if ye ever wish to find the way unto freedom, ye must be saved by much greater ones than any saviours have been.
Never yet beyond-man existed. I have seen them both naked, the greatest and the smallest man.
Much too like are they still unto each other. Verily, even the greatest one I found to be much too human ! "
Thus spake Zarathustra.
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