Camel, History, Redemption

Zarathustra himself becomes the Camel of one of his earlier speeches, when he assumes the burden of the entire human past by affirming it.  He foreshadows that moment while addressing "fragments and limbs of men", characterizing it as "redemption".  The implicit contrasts are clear: Christian salvation of individual souls from the history of the species, secularized in Modern Philosophy as a-temporal Individualism, e. g. the Cartesian Cogito.