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Second Part · XXXVI. The Land of Culture

Perambulating refutations of belief

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Perambulating refutations are ye, of belief itself, and a dislocation of all thought. UNTRUSTWORTHY ONES: thus do _I_ call you, ye real ones!

Zarathustra calls the 'real' men untrustworthy because they contradict belief itself.

Commentary on this chapter

What the critics said

Sterile scholars and love of the children's landAnthony M. Ludovici · Notes on Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1909interpretation

Ludovici says 'The Land of Culture' epitomises Nietzsche's attack on the scholars of his day as sterile because they believe in nothing, and that its last verses explain his altruism: he rejects Christian pity and neighbour-love both as degenerative slave-values and because he can love only his children's land, redeeming his fathers' errors in his children.