* See Fædrelandet .
* See Fædrelandet.
* Note. The article is not from the honored editorial staff of this paper but is contributed.
* against life’s spiritual trials
** in actuality
In margin: * generally speaking
In margin: * and that one never saw it in actuality
In margin: ** this lovable girl
[†] In margin: and just as Plato277 detected pride expressly in Diogenes’ tattered cloak, so one most readily detects contemptibleness in the environment of wealth.
[*] In margin: and just as Tacitus278 detected the contemptible slave mind in the Jewish King Agrippa, because he exercised tyrannical power, so contemptibleness is always seen most readily when it possesses power.
In margin: ** if not an attack.
In margin: * year after year
In margin: * of a kind hard to digest
[*] In margin: are said, for the injured party is initiated into a conspiracy instead.
In margin: ** a fortune and
[*] In margin: Not one of those writing in The Corsair accepts the terms of honor and the commitments that every other Danish author respects, which people demand of him; not one is capable of writing a substantially witty article in which some clear, specific idea is reflected with dialectical clarity and a mature view of life in the beautiful refracted light of steady, more deeply meditating wit.
In margin: * of his agreement so
[*] In margin: But we go on playing the game of being in Paris.294
In margin: ** literary
[*] In margin: there must be no reply—(Frater Tac.)—but only indictment.
[*] In margin: or, dejected, come upon her maid inquisitively reading The Corsair.
[**] In margin: I do not have many servants; I shall not be greeted by my subordinates with embarrassed looks.
[*] In margin: An action-response in personal costume.
In margin: * in the hand
In margin: ** He is not without passion but is also led astray by passion; he is not without the power of esthetic despair but also fortifies himself with ethical delusion.
[*] In margin: In part two, that moving account of Jacob Bendixen proposing to the students that they play pirate334 seems to be prophetic, but not in the sense that he ends by becoming a pirate—no, but that he gets his wish by getting a chance—to play pirate.
In margin: * and how perfectly.
In margin: ** Note. Therefore I also did this earlier,355 on the occasion of an article in Berlingske Tidende, a generally decent and respectable paper.
In margin: * literary prostitution
[*] In margin: very explicitly
In margin: * Note. Since, for better or for worse, we are accustomed to the brashest lies in print and it does no good to ignore this in a limited setting, I want to make sure in advance that no cheeky fellow will be able to attenuate this fact and therefore refer to Bianco Luno,387 who, after all, keeps a record and can testify that this is so.
In margin: ** Perhaps some few who remember the hue and cry raised because I committed the enormous crime of denouncing Mr. P.L.M. as an author writing in The Corsair now see the brazenness of the lies that were told, for there is hardly a better guarantee than the article revised by the author himself in the lexicon of authors.
[*] In margin: Prior to that time nothing could be done; my work for my idea demanded all my time, every minute, and undisturbed as possible. It is really superb that just when someone supposes and is spitefully pleased that I am taking a rash step393 (and this perhaps evokes some malicious glee) I am just then being most calculating and level-headed. But the best support for all action is—to pray. That is actually the true genius; then one never comes out on the short end.
In margin: * And now has the chance to lie about him: that he is affected, that he is able to hide it but is affected just the same. The latter formula is especially convenient for scandalmongers.
In margin: ** Who thereby is talking not about him but about himself.
[*] In margin: Then in ’48 he addressed himself to Christian VIII, and I do not doubt that he wanted to use this to his advantage, that later on he had not attacked him but the opposition. But there I would have put a little obstacle in his way, so that Christian VIII would not have had any dealings with him.
In margin: * it would be desirable and it is necessary that the pastors strive in a higher degree for the inward deepening of Christianity in themselves and in individuals.
[X5 B 128 325] * The present circumstances are such that every moment these fatal political encroachments are menacing the religious [changed from: churchly] domain. And such encroachments become doubly alarming when a mistaken orthodoxy or hyperorthodoxy (which supposedly would be absolutely opposed by its very nature) perhaps inadvertently becomes the amicable ingredient so that political radicalism and this pious radicalism come to stick together through voting by ballot in a bona caritate almost like—yes, what I am about to say is e concessis [on the basis of the opponent’s premises] according to pious radicalism’s own rigorous conception of the world and secular-mindedness, for I have a milder conception—almost like Gert Westphaler’s unintentional drinking to an oath of friendship with the executioner.505 Under such circumstances no doubt even the most honest orthodox person—he most likely of all—will admit that I have expressed myself both cautiously and circumspectly when (not as Dr. R. reports, that I have summarily accused him as guilty of this “confounded confusion of Christianity and politics”), sweeping before my own door, I have said: Nothing alarms me as much as anything that even remotely smacks of this confounded confusion of Christianity and politics. And no doubt such a person will also agree with me [X5 B 128 326] that Dr. R. does not report quite accurately when he says that I “reject” all free associations as a whole. I have not altogether rejected anything; I have said that I have a suspicion about the kind of associations in which one in formal unity sticks together with one’s qualitative opposite, which is being all too free and easy in freely associating.
* Note. See my thrice-repeated preface to the pseudonymous Practice in Christianity,514 the latest book I published.