Vulgar words in On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History (Page 1)

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A bastard kind of Christianity, but a living kind; with a heart-life in it; not dead, chopping barren logic merely!

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Della Scala stood among his courtiers, with mimes and buffoons (_nebulones ac histriones_) making him heartily merry; when turning to Dante, he said: "Is it not strange, now, that this poor fool should make himself so entertaining; while you, a wise man, sit there day after day, and have nothing to amuse us with at all?"

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Christianism, as Dante sings it, is another than Paganism in the rude Norse mind; another than "Bastard Christianism" half-articulately spoken in the Arab Desert, seven hundred years before!--The noblest _idea_ made _real_ hitherto among men, is sung, and emblemed forth abidingly, by one of the noblest men.

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