OF HIGHER MAN
��" When, for the first time, I went unto men, I com- mitted the hermit folly, the great folly. I stood in the marketplace.
And speaking unto all, I spake unto none. But in the evening, rope-dancers were my companions, and corpses ; and I myself was almost a corpse.
But with the new morning a new truth came unto me. Then I learned to say : \ What matter for me market and mob, and mob's noise and the mob's long ears ! '
Ye higher men, learn this from me. In the market no one believeth in higher men. And if ye are going to speak there, it is well ! But the mob blink : ' We are all equal ! '
' Ye higher men,' thus the mob blink ' there are no higher men ; we are all equal ; man is man ; in the presence of God we are all equal ! '
In the presence of God ! But now that God hath died. But in the presence of the mob we do not wish to be equal. Ye higher men, depart from the market !
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