14.
"To the clean are all things clean"-thus say the people. I, however, say unto
you: To the swine all things become swinish!
Therefore preach the visionaries and bowed-heads (whose hearts are also bowed
down): "The world itself is a filthy monster."
For these are all unclean spirits; especially those, however, who have no peace
or rest, unless they see the world from the backside-the backworldsmen!
To those do I say it to the face, although it sound unpleasantly: the world
resembleth man, in that it hath a backside,-so much is true!
There is in the world much filth: so much is true! But the world itself is not
therefore a filthy monster!
There is wisdom in the fact that much in the world smelleth badly: loathing
itself createth wings, and fountain-divining powers!
In the best there is still something to loathe; and the best is still something
that must be surpassed!-
O my brethren, there is much wisdom in the fact that much filth is in the
world!-
