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Ecce Homo serves as the final prose work of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and acts as a comprehensive summary of his character, purpose, and achievements. The text functions as a final self-assessment in which the author evaluates his life and work before his spiritual decline.

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EDITORIAL NOTE TO POETRY

their bellies Before little round things, They adore all that falleth not down— These last servants of God Believers (in reality)! 50 They made their God out of nothing, What wonder if now he is naught? 51 Ye loftier men! There have once been More thoughtful times, more reflective, Than is our to-day and to-morrow. 52 Our time is like a sick woman— Let her but shriek, rave, scold, And break the tables and dishes! 54 Ye mount? Is it true that ye mount, Ye loftier men? Are ye not,

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