Part 1

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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The First Complete and Authorised English Translation

EDITED BY DR OSCAR LEVY

VOLUME TEN

THE JOYFUL WISDOM

("LA GAYA SCIENZA")

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Of the First Edition of One Thousand Five Hundred Copies this is No.

FRIEDRICH 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

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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Printed at THE DARIEN PRESS, Edinburgh.

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