[II.15.] Vol. VI, pp. 49 ff.
[II.16.] Cf. Vilhelm Møller in Nordisk Tidskrift för Vetenskap, Konst och Industri. 1896, pp. 501-519.
[II.17.] Samtiden, 1896. (VII), pp. 382 ff.
[II.18.] Copenhagen, 1898.
[II.19.] Vol. VI (1899), pp. 400 ff.
[II.20.] Vol. XII, pp. 61 ff.
[II.21.] Chr. Collin, Christiania. 1914. H. Aschehoug & Co.
[II.22.] See pp. 71 ff. below.
[II.23.]** This article is reprinted in Det Geniale Menneske above referred to. It forms the second of a group of essays in which Collin analyzes the work of Shakespeare as the finest example of the true contribution of genius to the progress and culture of the race. Preceding the study of Hamlet is a chapter called The Shakespearean Controversy, and following it is a study of Shakespeare the Man. This is in three parts, the first of which is a reprint of an article in Samtiden (1901).
In Det Geniale Menneske Collin defines civilization as that higher state which the human race has attained by means of "psychic organs"—superior to the physical organs. The psychic organs have been created by the human intellect and they are controlled by the intellect. Had man been dependent upon the physical organs solely, he would have remained an animal. His psychic organs have enabled him to create instruments, tangible, such as tools and machines; intangible, such as works of art. These are psychic organs and with their aid man has become a civilized being.