OF OLD AND NEW TABLES 2QI
��To be true few are able to be so! And he who is able doth not want to be so. But least of all the good are able.
Oh, these good ! Good men never speak the truth. To be good in that way is a sickness for the mind.
They yield, these good, they submit themselves ; their heart saith what is said unto it, their foundation obeyeth. But whoever obeyeth doth not hear himself !
All that is called evil by the good, must come together in order that one truth be born. O my brethren, are ye evil enough for this truth ?
The bold adventuring, the long mistrust, the cruel Nay, satiety, the cutting into what is living how rarely do all these come together ! But by such seed truth is procreated !
Beside the bad conscience hitherto all knowledge hath grown ! Break, break, ye knowing, the old tables !
8
When the water hath poles, when gangway and railing jump over a stream verily, no one findeth belief who saith : ' Everything is in stream.'
But even churls contradict him. 'How?' say the churls, 'all is said to be in the stream? Poles and railings are evidently above the stream ! '
�� �
