Section 205 of Daybreak

1881

 

They unavoidantly intermary more and more year after year with the nobelest blood of eurrope  they will soon have a considerable heritage of good intelectual and physical manners so that in another 100 years they will have a sufficiently noble aspect not to render themselves as masters rediculous to those they will have subdued and this is important. and therefore a settlement of the question is still premature    they themselves know very well that the conquest of europe for any act of violence is not to be thought of but they also know that some day or another europe may like a ripe fruit fall into their hands if they do not clutch at it too eagerly in the meantime it is necessary for them to distinguish themselves in all departmets of european distiction.   

on the day when the jews will be able to exhibit to us their own work such jewls and golden vesels as no european nation with its shorter and less profound experiance can or could produce when israel shal have changed it eternal vengence into an eternal benediction for europe then that seventh day will once more appear when old johova may rejoice in himself in his creation in his chosen people an all all of us will rejoice with him 

 

The madman. - Do we still hear nothing of the noise of the grave-diggers who are burying God? Do we still smell nothing of the divine decomposi­tion? - Gods, too, decompose! God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him! How can we console ourselves, the murderers of all murderers! The holiest and the mightiest thing the world has ever possessed has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood from us? With what water could we clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what holy games will we have to invent for ourselves? Is the magnitude of this deed not too great for us? Do we not ourselves have to become gods merely to appear worthy of it?