Cultivated mind is the guardian
genius of democracy.... It is the
only dictator that freemen acknowledge
and the only security that free-men
desire.
Mirabeau B. Lamar
To my Father-in-Law
The Reverend George Fisher,
A Christian
CONTENTS
[INTRODUCTION I]
[DIAPSALMATA]
[IN VINO VERITAS (THE BANQUET)]
[FEAR AND TREMBLING]
[PREPARATION FOR A CHRISTIAN LIFE]
[THE PRESENT MOMENT[1]
[INTRODUCTION I]
Creditable as have been the contributions of Scandinavia to the cultural life of the race in well-nigh all fields of human endeavor, it has produced but one thinker of the first magnitude, the Dane, Sören Å. Kierkegaard[1]. The fact that he is virtually unknown to us is ascribable, on the one hand to the inaccessibility of his works, both as to language and form; on the other, to the regrettable insularity of English thought.