292 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, III
'Above the stream all is firm, all the values of things, the bridges, concepts, all "good" and "evil"
all that is firm ! '
When even the hard winter cometh, the subduer of streams, then even the wittiest learn mistrust. And, verily, not only churls say then : ' Should perhaps everything stand still ? '
' At bottom everything standeth still ' that is a proper winter-doctrine, a good thing for a sterile time, a good comfort for winter sleepers and fireside-mopers.
' At bottom everything standeth still.' But the thaw-wind preacheth the contrary !
The thaw-wind, a bull which is no ploughing bull,
a raging bull, a destroyer that breaketh ice with wrathful horns! But ice break et/t gangways !
O my brethren, is not now all in stream? Have not all railings and gangways fallen into the water? Who would still cling unto ' good ' and ' evil ' ?
' Woe unto us ! All hail unto ourselves ! The thaw- wind bloweth ! ' Thus preach, my brethren, through all lanes !
��There is an old illusion, called good and evil. Round fortunetellers and astrologers, hitherto the wheel of that illusion hath turned.
Once the folk believed in fortunetellers and astrol-
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