Excerpt from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None In German literature, leaving out of account the old gospel-harmonies, which are not works of original fiction in the proper sense, the germs of much that is in Zarathustra may be traced distinctly enough. For example, Riickert's Wisdom of the Brahman has many suggestions Of Nietzsche's book, the third part Of which has been strongly influenced by it. The whole orien talising and didactic poetry of the nineteenth century in Germany is inspired by Goethe's western-eastern Divau, and although Nietzsche's work does not show that influence to the same extent as A. W. Schlegel, Riickert, Platen, Bodenstedt and Count Schack, yet it 15 historically in more than one respect connected with that literary school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.