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...rt of “Zarathustra”:—”In the winter of 1882-83, I was living on the charming little Gulf of Rapallo, not far from Genoa, and between Chiavari and Cape... ...e circumstances that my ‘Zarathustra’ origi- nated. In the morning I used to start out in a southerly direction up the glorious road to Zoagli, which ... ...th the rosy dawn, he went before the sun, and spake thus unto it: Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou s... ...st behind the sea, and givest light also to the nether-world, thou exuberant star! Like thee must I go down, as men say, to whom I shall descend. Bles... ...ul: they walk warily. He is a fool who still stumbleth over stones or men! A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison ... ...ut are soon reconciled—otherwise it spoileth their stomachs. They have their little pleasures for the day, and their little pleasures for the night, b... ...e mine eternal short, as a tone dieth away in a cold night! Scarcely, as the twinkle of divine eyes, did it come to me—as a fleeting gleam! Thus spake...

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...should proceed separately to church. By some accident the bridegroom was a little less punctual than the widow and her bridal attendants; with whose a... ... between her fair young bridemaids. But her heroism was admirable. She had started with an irrepressible shudder, as if the stroke of the bell had fal... ... way to the tomb. 15 Hawthorne “My young friends here have their nerves a little shaken,” said the widow, with a smile, to the clergyman at the altar... ...full in sight. Many turned away their faces; others kept a fixed and rigid stare; and a young girl giggled hysterically, and fainted with the laughter... ...g slowly his meditative way towards the meetinghouse. With one accord they started, expressing more wonder than if some strange minister were coming t... ...rds the door; many stood upright, and turned directly about; while several little boys clambered upon the seats, and came down again with a terrible r... ... of Marlborough. His nose had a rubi- cund tinge, which, together with the twinkle of his eye, might have marked him as a lover of the wine cup and go...

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...make new centres of personal en- ergy—Schematic ways of representing this— Starbuck likens conversion to normal moral ripen- ing— Leuba’s ideas— Seemi... ... he will. My thanks for help in writing these lectures are due to Edwin D. Starbuck, of Stanford University, who made over to me his large collection ... ...his fact distinctly may breed confusion, I wish to insist upon the point a little before we enter into the docu- ments and materials to which I have r... ...ake a working use of the dis- tinction, and who may therefore feel first a little startled at the purely existential point of view from which in the f... ...orking use of the dis- tinction, and who may therefore feel first a little startled at the purely existential point of view from which in the followin... ...ned to fixed forms by imitation, and retained by habit. It would profit us little to study this second-hand religious life. We must make search rather... ...re is in the living act of perception always some- thing that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late. N...

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...l, neglected peasant, sunk in matter, insolent, gross and servile, makes a startling contrast with our own long-legged, long-headed, thoughtful, Bible... ... the streets where he has been wandering fancy- free. His college life has little of restraint, and nothing of necessary gentility. He will find no qu... ...d, again, which alone the Scottish boy adopts in his imagination, is but a little part of that, and avowedly cold, sterile and unpopulous. It is not s... ...ss away swiftly enough on the high seas of life; more swiftly still in the little bubbling back-water of the quadrangle; so that we see there, on a sc... ...le bubbling back-water of the quadrangle; so that we see there, on a scale startlingly diminished, the flight of time and the succession of men. I loo... ...in, nor to learn charity and modesty and justice from the sight; but still stared at them externally from the prison windows of my affectation. Once I... ...e both Roberts; and as we took our places at table, he addressed me with a twinkle: “We are just what you would call two bob.” He offered me port, I r...