They explained to Algreen-Ussing that they felt obliged to break their
contract with him, but were willing to pay him the compensation agreed
upon beforehand for failure to carry it out. He fought long to get his
project carried through, but his efforts proving fruitless, he refused,
from pride, to accept any indemnity, and was thus compelled to see with
bitterness many years' work and an infinite amount of trouble completely
wasted. Shortly afterwards he succumbed to an attack of illness.
XXIII.
A young man who plunged into philosophical study at the beginning of the
sixties in Denmark, and was specially engrossed by the boundary
relations between Philosophy and Religion, could not but come to the
conclusion that philosophical life would never flourish in Danish soil
until a great intellectual battle had been set on foot, in the course of
which conflicting opinions which had never yet been advanced in express
terms should be made manifest and wrestle with one another, until it
became clear which standpoints were untenable and which could be
maintained. Although he cherished warm feelings of affection for both R.
Nielsen and Broechner the two professors of Philosophy, he could not help
hoping for a discussion between them of the fundamental questions which
were engaging his mind.
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