* See the Preface to Two Upbuilding Discourses , 1843.
*See the Preface to Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1843.16
**See the preface to Two Upbuilding Discourses (1844): It seeks my reader, who with the right hand accepts what is offered with the right hand.17
†This accounts for the sadness in that preface when it says of the little book: “Inasmuch as in being published it is in a figurative sense starting a journey, I let my eyes follow it for a little while. I saw how it wended its way down solitary paths or walked solitary on public roads. After a few little mistakes, through being deceived by a fleeting resemblance, it finally met that single individual whom I with joy and gratitude call my reader, that single individual it is seeking, to whom, so to speak, it stretches out its arms” etc.18 See the preface to Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843). On the whole, this first preface had and has for me an utterly unique intimate meaning, which of course cannot be communicated as such.