294 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, III
Exposed unto the mercy, the spirit, the lunacy of every generation that cometh and transformeth every- thing that hath been into its own bridge !
A great lord of power could come, an artful fiend, with his mercy and disgrace to compel and constrain whatever is past, until for him it became a bridge and an omen and a herald and a cock-crow.
But this is the other danger and mine other pity : whoever is of the mob, his memory reacheth back unto his grandfather; but with his grandfather time ceaseth to exist.
Thus all that is past is exposed. For one day it might come to pass that the mob would become mas- ter, and all time would be drowned in shallow waters.
Therefore, O my brethren, a new nobility is requisite which is opposed unto all mob and all that is tyrannic and writeth on new tables the word 'noble.'
For many noble ones are requisite, and noble ones of many kinds, in order that there be nobility ! Or, as I said once in a figure : ' That exactly is godliness, that there are Gods, but no God ! '
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O my brethren, I consecrate you to be, and show unto you the way unto a new nobility. Ye shall become pro- creators and breeders and sowers of the future.
Verily, ye shall not become a nobility one might
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