Excerpt from Georg Brandes in Life and Letters The big-wigs of the university branded him as a false prophet and refused him a professorship. He fought the same sort of battle at Copenhagen that about the same time, on a much smaller scale, John Fiske was fighting at Harvard. Any man who in that day declared the Positivist phil osophy to be his creed was as sure to fall under the ban of heresy in Cambridge as in Copen hagen. Anyone who did not hide his sympathy for evolution might expect in either place to be cast into outer darkness. Those were epic days for Danish intellectual circles, for Brandes has always been a natural fighter. Before they were ended, the door_was flung wide open for the entry of modern European thought and the for ward march of Danish literature had begun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.