The outcome of it far exceeded my expectations, inasmuch as
Broechner was moved by my letter, and not only thanked me warmly for my
daring words, but went without delay to Nielsen and told him that he
intended to write a book on his entire philosophical activity and
significance. Nielsen took his announcement with a good grace.
However, as Broechner immediately afterwards lost his young wife, and was
attacked by the insidious consumption which ravaged him for ten years,
the putting of this resolution into practice was for several years
deferred.
At that I felt that I myself must venture, and, as a beginning, Julius
Lange and I, in collaboration, wrote a humorous article on Schmidt's
review of _The Logic of Fundamental Ideas_, which Lange was to get
into _The Daily Paper_, to which he had access. Three days after
the article was finished Lange came to me and told me that to his dismay
it was--gone. It was so exactly like him that I was just as delighted as
if he had informed me that the article was printed. For some time we
hoped that it might be on Lange's table, for, the day before, he had
said:
"I am not of a curious disposition, but I should like to know what there
really is on that table!"
However, it had irrevocably disappeared.
I then came forward myself with a number of shorter articles which I
succeeded in getting accepted by the _Fatherland_.
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