1. When
Zarathustra
was again
on the
continent,
he did not
go
straightway
to his
mountains
and his
cave, but
made many
wanderings
and
questionings,
and
ascertained
this and
that; so
that he
said of
himself
jestingly:
“Lo, a
river that
floweth
back unto
its source
in many
windings!”
For he
wanted to
learn what
had taken
place
among men
during the
interval:
whether
they had
become
greater or
smaller.
And once,
when he
saw a row
of new
houses, he
marvelled,
