[23]Here, the unreserved identification with human suffering above referred to.
[24]Cf. Footnote 8, in "The Misfortune of Christendom."
[25]As my friend, H. M. Jones, points out, the following passage is essentially Aristotelian: "The true difference is that one (history) relates what has happened, the other (poetry) what may happen"; "Poetics," Chap. IX.
[26]Cf. Plato's "Apologia" where Socrates is made to say of himself that he is inflicted on the Athenians like a gadfly on a horse, in order to keep them awake.
[27]Luke 10, 23.
[28]Kierkegaard's own note.