Seht da den Menschen! Aus dem Franzoesischen: Ecce homo

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ly! Show them to us as they nourish themselves with the bread of tears original: "Thränenbrot", as one next to the other observes a dark silence of pain Schmerzesschweigen, interrupting it only from time to time to let the sobbing tones of repentance Reue be heard, so that man may say to man: my brother, upon the man of lies we have founded the realm of death Reich des Todes that now envelops us in its darknesses Finsternisse. Let us no longer hide this man of lies in his rubble and dross! Let us strive to place him openly, so that the free air may seek him out to his very roots and the realm of death may be shaken in its foundation, sinking into its abysses by bursting for us!

But how very far is man from granting such a sight and from prostrating himself before that unquestionable justice Gerechtigkeit that still constantly thunders over him! The same primordial source Urgrund of injustice that threw us out of our original position