THE JOYFUL WISDOM

("LA GAYA SCIENZA")

iiOf the First Edition of

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iiiFRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

THE

JOYFUL WISDOM

("LA GAYA SCIENZA")

TRANSLATED BY

THOMAS COMMON

WITH POETRY RENDERED BY

PAUL V. COHN

AND

MAUDE D. PETRE

I stay to mine house confined,

Nor graft my wits on alien stock;

And mock at every master mind

That never at itself could mock.

T. N. FOULIS

13 & 15 FREDERICK STREET

EDINBURGH: & LONDON

1910

ivALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Printed at The Darien Press, Edinburgh.

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