Seht da den Menschen! Aus dem Franzoesischen: Ecce homo

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pursues, accompanies, and animates us even in our fall. Just as it hid from us the source of death Todesquell of our error Verirrung, it still always hides its fruits and consequences from us. It is only concerned with prolonging their duration, so that it may eternalize the power of its rule through our delusion Täuschung, which unfortunately for us consists only of our delusions and darknesses Finsternissen.

It once persuaded us that if we followed its seductive inspirations, we would not fall. Now that we have followed them, it seeks to persuade us that we have not fallen, and strives incessantly to fill us with the concern of persuading others who surround us of this as well. Instead of letting each of us admit the particular sign of damnation Verdammnißzeichen we bear, and the type of deprivation Entbehrung imposed upon us, it lets us merely watch to deceive our neighbors about this. And it has known how to artificially multiply this consuming care into infinity through the consequences of this fall, through the mani-