We Philologists · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Chapter 1
Produced by Thierry Alberto, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net _First Complete and Authorised English translation in Eighteen Volumes_ * * * * * * * * * * AUTHOR OF "THE QUINTESSENCE OF NIETZSCHE," "RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES OF THE EAST," &C. The mussel is crooked inside and rough outside · it is only when we hear its deep note after blowing into it that we can begin to esteem it at its true value.--(Ind. Spruche, ed Bothlingk, 1 335) An ugly-looking-wind instrument · but we must first blow into it.
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