I sent it to Professor Broechner and asked his opinion of it.
Simultaneously I began to work upon a paper on the Idea of Fate in Greek
Tragedy, a response to the Prize question of the year 1862-1863, and on
December 31, 1862, had finished the Introduction, which was published
for the first time about six years later, under the title _The Idea of
Tragic Fate_. Appended to this was a laborious piece of work dealing
with the conceptions of Fate recorded in all the Greek tragedies that
have come down to us. This occupied the greater part of the next six
months.
The published Introduction gives a true picture of the stage of my
development then, partly because it shows the manner in which I had
worked together external influences, the Kierkegaardian thoughts and the
Hegelian method, partly because with no little definiteness it reveals a
fundamental characteristic of my nature and a fundamental tendency of my
mind, since it is, throughout, a protest against the ethical conception
of poetry and is a proof of how moral ideas, when they become part of an
artistic whole, lose their peculiar stamp and assume another aspect.
In November, 1862, I joined a very large recently started
undergraduates' society, which met once a fortnight at Borch's College
to hear lectures and afterwards discuss them together.
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