Seht da den Menschen! Aus dem Franzoesischen: Ecce homo

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which we intentionally present here to the bodily-minded man, as it is too significant to be excused if he did not notice in it some traces of his former dignity and the supremacy Oberherrlichkeit of his thinking; a distinction, I say, that could raise him higher and prove to him how rightly it has been said that inner truths Wahrheiten must be more certain and instructive than geometric geometrischen ones, because the latter rest only on surfaces, while the former spring actively from the center Mittelpunkt itself and reveal its depth.

Permeated by this conviction, then, let us transport ourselves back to our origin Ursprung! Let us penetrate with our activity to the state in which we would find ourselves if the creative schöpferische influence of our highest source still truly created our existence and, at this moment, reshaped in our human nature Menschennatur all those primal grounds Urgründe of order, perfection, and happiness which,

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according to our feeling, must dwell eternally in the supreme being obersten Wesen from which we descend. Would not all these divine seeds göttlichen Keime that created themselves within us carry with them a powerful, effective life? Would our reason Vernunft not be generated, as if continuously, by the vapor of those innumerable and eternal clarities Klarheiten that would give it both existence and light? Would our capacity for love Liebesvermögen not be more than filled with the living and gentle all-encompassing nature of our primal ground Urgrundes, which would leave no gap in our sublime inclinations and the momentum of our holy gratitude Dankbarkeit toward him?

Some think our origin must be considered under two points in time preceding the current state of man, namely for the sake of the wise and Christian idea that the primal evil Urübel was not eternal, and only to leave to God the glory of having exercised his high privilege, by virtue of which he brings forth all his creatures