12 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, I
Then earth will have become small, and on it the last man will be hopping who maketh everything small. His kind is indestructible like the ground- flea; the last man liveth longest.
' We have invented happiness ' the last men say blinking.
They have left the regions where it was hard to live, for one must have warmth. One still loveth his neighbour and rubbeth one's self on him ; for warmth one must have.
To turn sick and to have suspicion are regarded as sinful. They walk wearily. A fool he who still stumbleth over stones or men.
A little poison now and then : that causeth pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for an easy death.
They still work, for work is an entertainment. But they are careful, lest the entertainment exhaust them.
They no longer grow poor and rich ; it is too trouble- some to do either. No herdsman and one flock ! Each willeth the same, each is equal : he who feel- eth otherwise voluntarily goeth into a lunatic asylum.
' Once all the world was lunatic ' the most refined say blinking.
One is clever and knoweth whatever has happened so that there is no end of mocking. They still quar- rel, but they are soon reconciled otherwise the stomach would turn.
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