Soren Kierkegaard

whatever to engage in a public dispute. And then he cited yet another
justification for having written his rejoinder: An article such as Kierke-
gaard’s “must not only be judged by the immediate and perhaps somewhat
extraordinary impression it produces, but also by itsaftereffects. In his second
article, which is even more fanatical than the first, bordering on megaloma-
nia, he has already provided an example of what I have said about him. In
any event, naturally I will not be writing anything further in this connec-
tion. I thin kit is not impossible that at some point he will produce an entire
boo kon this topic.”