OF THE FAMOUS WISE MEN
"Ye have saved the folk and the superstition of the folk, all ye famous wise men, and not truth ! And for that very reason ye were revered.
And for the same reason your unbelief was en- dured because it was a joke and a round-about-way unto the folk. Thus the lord alloweth his slaves to bustle about and is amused with their overflowing spirits.
But what is hated by the folk as a wolf is by the dogs is the free spirit, the enemy of all fetters, the not-adorer, he who liveth in the woods.
To hunt him up from his hiding place that hath always been called by the folk : ' the sense for what is right ' : against him they still bait their hounds with the sharpest teeth.
' For truth is there because the folk are there ! Alas ! Alas ! for them who seek ! ' Thus it hath sounded at all times.
Ye tried to help your people to feel themselves right in their reverence. That was what ye called ' will unto truth,' ye famous wise men !
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