Det logiske System, Anden Udgave
DET LOGISKE SYSTEM
En Nytaarsgave
første Bind, indeholdende §§ 1–4 samt Anhang
Anden forøgede og forbedrede Udgave
med en Anmeldelse aftrykt fra Fædrelandet samt en ny Anmærkning om Bind II
udgivet af
NICOLAUS NOTABENE
KJØBENHAVN
FAAES HOS UNIVERSITETSBOGHANDLER C. A. REITZEL
TRYKT I BIANCO LUNOS BOGTRYKKERI
Til Nytaar 1846
Pris: 3 Mark, eller en ottende Deel af Bogladeprisen paa første Oplag.
Duodecimo, as before; but the white kid of the first edition has been replaced by a stiff paper-board, printed in white with a creditable imitation of the original kid grain, the publisher having determined that the cultivated public which received the volume so warmly in its first edition would not, in a popular edition, demand the same outlay upon the binding as had been demanded by the first. The gilt is gone. The serpent biting its own tail, which on the first edition was stamped in deep gold on the back board, is here stamped in a matte black, and the motto SYSTEMA EST is set, beneath it, in a roman of slightly smaller body. The silk ribbon has been retained, but in cotton; the binder having been instructed to procure a cotton of the pale blue shade of the original silk, and having procured one which differs from the original at a distance of more than three paces only in the way that cotton differs from silk, which is to say only by a small amount of inward dignity not, on inspection, apparent to the eye. The volume hangs from the Christmas tree as before, though the publisher confesses it hangs with a slightly different Gewicht. The interior is set from the original plates, unaltered; the cultivated reader who possesses the first edition will find the type, the page, and the paragraph the same. The page numbers have been preserved, that the references entered in the wide margins by the more enterprising subscribers to the first edition may, in being transcribed into the present, fall on the line where they were originally entered. The small printed gold star which was to be found, after careful searching, in the lower right-hand corner of page 47 of the first edition has, in the present edition, been printed in black; this being the only respect in which the present edition departs from a perfect identity with its predecessor.
FORTALE TIL ANDEN UDGAVE
At en Udgave paa et tusind Exemplarer skulde være udsolgt indenfor to Maaneder, er en Omstændighed, hvormed Udgiveren lykønsker sig selv med en Maadehold svarende til Forretten. Forfatteren af en Nytaarsgave, der blot har udsolgt sin første Udgave før Helligtrekonger, har alene opfyldt Aarstiden; Forfatteren, hvis første Udgave er bleven gjenefterspurgt i Januar og Februar, har opfyldt, foruden Aarstiden, Maaneden efter Aarstiden, hvilket er en literær Marksmandskab af en aldeles forskjellig Orden. Den dannede Læser vil forstaae, at Udgiveren ikke paa egen Initiativ kan reise Krav paa denne videre Distinction; Distinctionen tildeles af Publikum, og det er for Publikums vedvarende Yndest, at nærværende Udgave nu fremlægges for dem.
Jeg tilstaaer mig en Smule overrasket. En Bog, der ved sine afsluttende Siders aabenhjertige Tilstaaelse intet indeholdt — det vil sige, ingen Deel hvadsomhelst af det originale Bidrag, den havde bekjendtgjort — maatte med Føie være ventet paa et eller andet Tidspunkt af sin commercielle Carriere at møde den Modstand, Publikum er vant til at yde Bøger, der intet indeholde. Modstanden er ikke bleven mødt. Bogen er bleven kjøbt, er bleven baaret hjem, er bleven hængt op paa Træet, er bleven taget ned igjen om Nytaarsmorgen, er bleven aabnet, og er bleven — saa vidt jeg har kunnet fastslaae — beholdt. Det dannede Publikum har ikke tilbageleveret sine Exemplarer. Boghandlerne have ikke klaget. Den forventede Modstand har paa intet Trin materialiseret sig. Udgiveren er derfor tvungen til at drage den Slutning, Beviset støtter: at hvad det dannede Publikum havde ønsket at modtage paa Nytaar 1845, var netop saadan en Bog, som den første Udgave leverede, og at intet videre Indhold vilde have forbedret Modtagelsen.
Slutningen værende fastslaaet, opstaaer Spørgsmaalet, i hvilken Form den anden Udgave skulde fremlægges. Tre Former laae aabne for Udgiveren. Den første var at udsende den anden Udgave med det originale Bidrag omsider incorporeret — det vil sige, med §§ 5 og følgende omsider udarbeidede og indføiede. Denne Form var tiltrækkende, men impracticabel, idet §§ 5 og følgende endnu ikke ere udarbeidede, nærværende Forfatters Arbeider siden den første Udgaves Fremkomst værende blevne optagne af Forberedelsen af Bindene IV, V, VI og VIII af nærværende Række, og §§ 5 og følgende værende blevne fortrængte af dem. Den anden Form var at udsende den anden Udgave med det originale Bidrag fremdeles ikke incorporeret, men med en ny Fortale erkjendende Publikums Modtagelse og lovende, at det originale Bidrag i sin Tid vilde fremkomme. Denne Form var ligeledes tiltrækkende, men det blev befundet, at at gjentage den første Udgaves Gestus i den anden Udgave maatte udtømme ved Gjentagelsen, hvad der var blevet hilst velkomment i den første. Den tredie Form, og den Form omsider antagne, var at udsende den anden Udgave nøiagtigt som den stod, uden videre Stof bortset fra et nyt Titelblad, en ny Fortale, den optrykte Anmeldelse af den fortjente Critiker, hvis Notice saa væsentligt har bistaaet den første Udgaves Salg, en ny Anmærkning angaaende Bind IIs Udsættelse, og en Subscriptions-Indbydelse til en nedsat Pris for de af den første Udgaves Subscribenter, der, havende bestilt Bind I, finde sig nu intet videre at behøve. Denne Form har den Fordeel at bevare i den anden Udgave nøiagtigt, hvad Publikum fandt i den første Udgave at være tilstrækkeligt.
Prisen er bleven nedsat. Den første Udgave solgtes i sit forgyldte Futteral med Silkesløifen til fem Rigsdaler Exemplaret; i sin simple hæftede Form til een Rigsdaler fire Mark. Nærværende Udgave sælges, i sine imitations-Kid Pap-Permer med Bomulds-Sløife, til tre Mark — hvilket er, efter Udgiverens Bogholders Beregning, een Ottendedeel af den første Udgaves Bogladepris. Jeg er bleven underrettet af mine Collegaer i Faget om, at den sædvanlige Nedsættelse for en Folkeudgave er det halve, eller paa det dybeste det fjerde, og at en Nedsættelse til een Ottendedeel er i vor Litteratur uden Fortilfælde. Udgiveren fremfører, at en Modtagelse uden Fortilfælde fortjener en Pris uden Fortilfælde, og at idet den første Udgave ved Publikums Yndest meer end har dækket Produktionsomkostningerne for begge Udgaver tilsammen, kan nærværende Udgave sælges til hvilkensomhelst Pris og dog yde et lille Afkast. Prisen af tre Mark er valgt, fordi den er den Pris, til hvilken, efter Boghandlerlauget, en Nytaarsgave ophører at betragtes som en Gavebog og begynder at betragtes som en lille Bog; og nærværende Forfatter har ved at sætte Prisen paa Grændsen ønsket at lade den dannede Læser Valget af at betragte Bindet som det ene eller det andet, efter hans Skjøn. Et Bind, der paa een Gang er en Nytaarsgavebog og en lille Bog, er, fremfører Udgiveren, en Slags Bind, der ikke tidligere har existeret i vor Litteratur, og som nærværende Udgave har den Tilfredshed at indføre.
Nicolaus Notabene Kjøbenhavn, Hellig Tre Kongers Octav, 1846
That an edition of one thousand copies should be sold out within two months is a circumstance upon which the publisher congratulates himself with a moderation proportioned to the privilege. The author of a New Year's gift-book who has merely sold out his first edition before Twelfth Night has only fulfilled the season; the author whose first edition has been called for again in January and February has fulfilled, in addition to the season, the month after the season, which is a feat of literary marksmanship of an altogether different order. The cultivated reader will understand that the publisher cannot, on his own initiative, claim this further distinction; the distinction is conferred by the public, and it is for the public's continuing favour that the present edition is now placed before them.
I confess myself a little surprised. A book which contained, by the candid admission of its closing pages, nothing — that is to say, no portion whatever of the original contribution which it had announced — might reasonably have been expected to encounter, at some point in its commercial career, the resistance which the public is in the habit of offering to books that contain nothing. The resistance has not been encountered. The book has been bought, has been carried home, has been hung from the tree, has been taken down again on the morning of the New Year, has been opened, and has been — so far as I am able to determine — kept. The cultivated public has not returned its copies. The booksellers have not complained. The expected resistance has not, at any stage, materialised. The publisher is therefore compelled to draw the inference which the evidence supports: that what the cultivated public had wished to receive at the New Year of 1845 was precisely such a book as the first edition supplied, and that no further content would have improved the reception.
The inference being established, the question arises in what form the second edition should be presented. Three forms were open to the publisher. The first was to issue the second edition with the original contribution at last incorporated — that is to say, with the §§ 5 and following at last drafted and inserted. This form was attractive but impracticable, the §§ 5 and following being not yet drafted, the present writer's labours since the appearance of the first edition having been occupied with the preparation of Volumes IV, V, VI, and VIII of the present series, and the §§ 5 and following having been crowded out by them. The second form was to issue the second edition with the original contribution still not incorporated, but with a new preface acknowledging the public's reception and promising that the original contribution would in due course appear. This form was likewise attractive, but it was felt that to repeat the gesture of the first edition in the second edition might exhaust, by the repetition, what had been welcomed in the first instance. The third form, and the form at last adopted, was to issue the second edition exactly as it stood, with no further matter except a new title-page, a new preface, the reprinted review of the meritorious critic whose notice has so materially assisted the sale of the first edition, a new Anmærkning concerning the postponement of Bind II, and a Subscription Notice at a reduced rate for those subscribers to the first edition who, having ordered Volume I, find themselves now in want of nothing further. This form has the advantage of preserving, in the second edition, exactly what the public found, in the first edition, to be sufficient.
The price has been reduced. The first edition sold, in its gilt case with the silk ribbon, at five Rigsdaler the copy; in its plain stitched form, at one Rigsdaler four Mark. The present edition sells, in its imitation-kid boards with the cotton ribbon, at three Mark — which is, by the calculation of the publisher's clerk, one-eighth of the bookshop price of the first edition. I am informed by my colleagues in the trade that the customary reduction for a popular edition is one-half, or at the deepest one-quarter, and that a reduction to one-eighth is, in our literature, unprecedented. The publisher submits that an unprecedented reception merits an unprecedented price, and that since the first edition has, by the favour of the public, more than recovered the costs of production for both editions together, the present edition may be sold at any price whatever and still yield a small return. The price of three Mark has been chosen because it is the price at which, according to the booksellers' guild, a New Year's gift-book ceases to be regarded as a gift-book and begins to be regarded as a little book; and the present writer, by setting the price at the boundary, has wished to leave the cultivated reader the option of regarding the volume as either, at his discretion. A volume which is at once a New Year's gift-book and a little book is, the publisher submits, a kind of volume which has not previously existed in our literature, and which the present edition has the satisfaction of introducing.
Nicolaus Notabene Copenhagen, the Octave of Epiphany, 1846
AFTRYKTE ANMELDELSER
Udgiveren optrykker i nærværende anden Udgave fire af de Notitser, som den første Udgave foranledigede i den periodiske Presse. Han har valgt de fire med Henblik paa at repræsentere de forskjellige Sindelag, det dannede Publikum har bragt til Bindet; han troer, at Læseren ved at sammenligne dem vil danne en juster Vurdering af den første Udgave, end nogen enkelt Notits kunde levere. Udgiverens Tak skyldes hvert af de fire Tidsskrifter for deres Tilladelse til Optrykning.
I. Fra Fædrelandet, Nr. 19, den 23de Januar 1845.
Den dannede Læser af Kjøbenhavn har ved meer end een Anledning i det forløbne Decennium havt den eiendommelige Fornemmelse ved at aabne en Nytaarsgave at finde, at Bindet svarede i hver Enkelthed til, hvad han ved de periodiske Bekjendtgjørelser var blevet ledet til at vente. Fornemmelsen har sine Glæder, men dens Glæder ere begrændsede; de ere Glæden ved at faae sine Forventninger opfyldte, hvilket er den laveste af de literære Glæder. Det logiske System, der nu fremlægges for os af Udgiveren Hr. Notabene, yder en Glæde af en aldeles høiere Orden. Den dannede Læser, aabnende Bindet, finder, at Bindet ikke svarer til, hvad han var blevet ledet til at vente; at det indeholder, hvor §§ 5 og følgende skulde staae, et Anhang, der undskylder deres Fravær; og at Undskyldningen, langt fra at være en Mangel ved Bindet, er Bindets fornemste originale Bidrag. Anmelderen har sjeldent mødt en meer elegant Inversion. Udgivelsen af de indledende Paragrapher af et System, ledsaget af en aabenhjertig Notits om, at Systemet selv ikke er udarbeidet, er en Procedure, vor Tids speculative Litteratur forlængst har antaget, men hidtil har antaget uden Erkjendelse. Hr. Notabene har havt Originaliteten at erkjende den. Ved at erkjende den har han forvandlet, hvad der hos hans Forgjængere var en Mangel ved Proceduren, til et Træk ved Proceduren. Han har ligesom fuldendt Proceduren ved at fuldende den Aabenhjertighed, hvormed Proceduren føres.
Anmelderen er dog tvungen til at indføre eet Forbehold, hvilket Udgiveren, haaber Anmelderen, vil modtage i den Aand, hvori det tilbydes. Bindets afsluttende Siders Aabenhjertighed, beundringsværdig i sig selv, tillades af Udgiveren at antage ved visse Øieblikke Formen af en Reflexion over vore Forgjængeres speculative Litteratur — en Form, der, om presset, kunde tydes som en Antydning, at Forgjængerne have gjort mindre vel, end de have foreslaaet at gjøre. Anmelderen vilde ikke ønske at antage, at Udgiveren har tilsigtet nogen saadan Antydning. Han vilde foretrække at antage, at Udgiverens Aabenhjertighed, havende begyndt paa hans egne Sider, blot ved en Forsømmelse er udvidet til Sider, der ikke ere hans egne; og at Udgiveren i en fremtidig Udgave vil indskrænke sin Aabenhjertighed til sin rette Gjenstand. Med dette Forbehold indført anbefaler Anmelderen Bindet til det dannede Publikum, i Tilliden til, at det vil blive modtaget, som det fortjener. Af alle de Nytaarsgaver tilbudte i nærværende Sæson, er Bindet udgivet af Hr. Notabene det eneste, der har havt Modet at være, paa sin egen Tilstaaelse, det Bind, det er. Det sælges hos C. A. Reitzel. Prisen er een Rigsdaler fire Mark i hæftede Permer, fem Rigsdaler i det forgyldte Futteral med Silkesløifen. Anmelderen er underrettet af Forlæggeren om, at en anden Udgave er i Overveielse.
Anmeldt af ——
II. Fra Berlingske Tidende, Nr. 31, den 6te Februar 1845.
Et behageligt Bind er paa det Sidste fremkommet fra Bianco Lunos Presse, der sælges hos Hr. Reitzels Etablissement, hvilket Hovedstadens dannede Familier, vover nærværende Notits at forudsige, ville finde af Interesse som et Nytaarstilbud af usædvanlig Elegance. Bindet er indbundet i hvidt Kid med et dybt Guld-Stempel, idet Ornamentet — en Slange i Færd med at bide sin egen Hale — er udført med en Præcision, der reflekterer Ære over det danske Bogbinderlaug. De forgyldte Snit ere særligt fine; Silkesløifen, af en bleg blaae Tone meget paa Mode denne Sæson, er syet i Ryggen frem for at være klistret paa, paa tysk Maneer, og vil ikke løsne sig under Bindets første Læsning. Prisen, fem Rigsdaler i Futteralet og een Rigsdaler fire Mark i hæftede Permer, er efter Anmelderens Anskuelse ikke overdreven.
Bindets Indhold er et logisk System i fire Paragrapher af Hr. Notabene, hvis Navn er, mener Anmelderen, nyt for vor Litteratur. Paragrapherne ere skrevne paa en Maade, Anmelderen fandt behagelig, omendskjønt han ved en enkelt Læsning ikke var i Stand til at følge den speculative Argumentation i hver Enkelthed. Han forstaaer, paa Autoriteten af en Ven, der har anvendt sig paa saadanne Sager flittigere end Anmelderen, at de tre første Paragrapher ere oversatte af Hegels tyske, medens den fjerde er Hr. Notabenes eget Bidrag; Anmelderen er ikke i Stand til at bekræfte Tilskrivningen, men rapporterer den til Gavn for de Læsere, der lægge Vægt paa Forfatterspørgsmaal. Der følger et Anhang, hvori Forfatteren har Aabenhjertigheden at erkjende, at Systemet endnu ikke er complet, og en Subscriptions-Indbydelse til de paafølgende Bind. Anmelderen betragter Anhanget som et usædvanligt Træk; han kan ikke huske tidligere at have mødt en Tilstaaelse af denne Slags i en Nytaarsgave og vilde vove den Mening, at Tilstaaelsen, omendskjønt utvivlsomt hædrende for Hr. Notabene som Mand, maaskee ikke er en Qvalitet, den dannede Læser vil ønske at møde i sin Nytaarsgave ved nogen hyppig Anledning.
Bindet anbefales til Placering paa Juletræet i Husstande, der modtage deres Gaver om Morgenen frem for om Aftenen paa Nytaar, idet Guldet er af en Dybde, som Julealtens Lys i nær Nærhed maatte misfarve. Anmelderen tilføier sine varme Ønsker for det andet Heftes Held, hvilket Hr. Notabenes Fortale bekjendtgjør til Nytaar 1846.
Meddelt af en Correspondent.
III. Fra Intelligensbladene, Nr. 53, den 14de Februar 1845. (Udgiveren af nærværende anden Udgave erkjender sin særlige Forbindelse til dette Tidsskrifts Udgiver, ved hvis Høflighed Notitsen optrykkes.)
Et nyt Bidrag til Kongerigets speculative Litteratur er blevet fremlagt for det dannede Publikum i den forløbne Julesæson i Form af et duodez Bind udgivet af Hr. Notabene og tilbudt med hiin Eleganceproduction, Sæsonen fordrer, som en Nytaarsgave. Bindet indeholder de indledende Paragrapher af et logisk System tilligemed et Anhang, hvori Udgiveren forklarer Udsættelsen af de videre Paragrapher til et paafølgende Bind. Den Notice, nærværende Tidsskrift foreslaaer at tilbyde, maa af Nødvendighed falde kort i Forhold til Bindets Fortjenester; de Sager berørte i de fire Paragrapher ere af saadan Dybde, at et periodisk Organ ikke indenfor den det tildelte Plads kan yde dem Retfærdighed. Læseren henvises for en adæqvat Behandling til saadanne forestaaende Numre af nærværende Tidsskrift, som i sin Tid maatte optage de involverede speculative Spørgsmaal.
Vi indskrænke os i nærværende Notice til følgende Iagttagelser.
For det første. Undertagelsen af et logisk System er i vor Litteratur ingen nye. Den dannede Læser vil erindre, at Bekjendtgjørelsen af et saadant System har været et Træk ved den danske speculative Presse i over et Decennium, idet Bekjendtgjørelserne ere blevne udsendte med den Værdighed, Sagen fordrer, af Skribenter, hvis Navne ere bekjendte for enhver Læser af disse Spalter. Proceduren med Bekjendtgjørelse-fulgt-af-Subscription er en Procedure, der har tjent vor Litteratur vel, og som nærværende Tidsskrift ved meer end een Anledning har forsvaret mod Critik fra dem, der med mindre Fortrolighed med den speculative Tænknings Fordringer, end de formode, have indbildt sig, at Proceduren trængte til Retfærdiggjørelse. Proceduren trænger til ingen saadan. Det er den Procedure, der er passende for et System, hvis Værdighed er for stor til at tillade dets praematur Fuldendelse; Bekjendtgjørelserne have da Værdien af Systemet selv paa Forhaand, og Subscribenten, der har betalt forud for de bekjendtgjorte Bind, har i hele Bekjendtgjørelsernes Tidsrum været i Besiddelse af det Bekjendtgjorte.
For det andet. Hr. Notabene har i Anhanget til sit Bind veget noget fra denne Procedure, idet han har erkjendt paa Tryk Ikke-Ankomsten af Paragrapherne §§ 5 og følgende. Erkjendelsen er efter nærværende Tidsskrifts Anskuelse maaskee overdreven. At erkjende Ikke-Ankomsten af en Deel af et System er at indbyde Publikum i en Overveielse af Systemets Ufuldstændighed, som Publikum ikke i Almindelighed er qualificeret til at undertage; Overveielsen hører rettelig til Forfatteren, og Publikum har ved Praxis i det forløbne Decennium været tilfreds med at lade den forblive i Forfatterens Forvaring. Vi sige ikke, at Hr. Notabene har feilet. Vi sige alene, at den Procedure, han har antaget, omendskjønt den har Aabenhjertighedens Fordeel, maaskee har Demeriten at forvirre de af hans Læsere, der hidtil have modtaget deres speculative Bind paa den i Kongeriget sædvanlige Maade, og som nu maatte formode, at det Sædvanlige ved Hr. Notabenes Exempel ikke længere skal forventes.
For det tredie. Vi vove den videre Iagttagelse, med den Deference, der sømmer sig det ærværdige Navn, vi staae i Begreb at paakalde, at Bindet maatte have været des meer velkomment, om dets Udgiver havde fundet for godt at rette sine speculative Arbeider mod de Sager, som de nylige astronomiske Udgivelser af et meest distingveret Medlem af vor litterære Republik omsider have bragt indenfor det dannede Publikums Rækkevidde. Himlene ere bleven aabnede over os. Fortsættelsen af hine Arbeider er efter nærværende Tidsskrifts Anskuelse den meest paatrængende speculative Opgave for nærværende Time. Hr. Notabene, hvis aabenbare Gaver qualificere ham for Foretagendet, vil maaskee i sit andet Bind finde det muligt at rette sin Pen mod det astronomiske Stof frem for mod Udfoldelsen af Paragrapher, der, vil den dannede Læser være den første at indrømme, allerede ere blevne adæqvat behandlede i vore Forgjængeres Skrifter. Vi overdrage Forslaget til Hr. Notabenes Reflexion med Forsikringen om, at det tilbydes i Venskabs Aand.
Bindet erholdes hos Hr. Reitzel. Prisen er allerede omtalt.
Anmeldt af et Medlem af det redactionelle Udvalg.
IV. Fra Kjøbenhavnsposten, Nr. 27, den 1ste Februar 1845.
Undertegnede har i nærværende Nummer den ubehagelige Opgave at bringe til sine Læseres Opmærksomhed en Nytaarsgave af en Slags, der efter Undertegnedes Mening ikke burde have været tilbudt Publikum til den Pris, hvortil den tilbydes, eller ja til nogensomhelst Pris.
Bindet er en Hr. Notabenes Værk, om hvem Undertegnede har ingen videre Oplysning, end at han har havt Frækheden at trykke paa sit Binds Titelblad Ordene Det logiske System — det logiske System — og at fordre af det dannede Publikum fem Rigsdaler Exemplaret i sit forgyldte Futteral for Modtagelsen af et Bind, der efter Forfatterens egen Tilstaaelse paa dets afsluttende Sider overhovedet ikke indeholder det logiske System. Bindet indeholder i Stedet for Systemet fire korte Paragrapher af en Slags, som Undertegnede mindes at have læst med stort Udbytte i de Hegelske Kompendier, der bleve fremlagte for ham i hans Studieaar; og dernæst et langt Anhang, hvori Forfatteren oplyser det dannede Publikum, at Systemet ikke er skrevet, at det faktisk ikke er at skrive til den fastsatte Dato, at den fastsatte Dato ikke i ethvert Tilfælde er den rette Dato for det, og at det dannede Publikum derfor, havende betalt fem Rigsdaler for nærværende Bind, indbydes til at betale en yderligere Sum i Subscription for det Bind, der skal følge.
Undertegnede beder om sine Læseres Overbærenhed, om han udtrykker sig med nogen Varme. Undertegnede har ikke i Forløbet af en lang Carriere i den periodiske Presse kunnet huske et meer extraordinært Tilfælde af det literære Establishments Imposition paa det taalmodige Kjøbenhavnske Publikums Pungs. Bindet er paa sin egen Tilstaaelse et tomt Bind. De fem Rigsdaler, der fordres for det, betales for Indbindingen, Silkesløifen og den lille trykte gyldne Stjerne, Hr. Notabene har ladet indføre paa Side 47, intet videre Indhold værende leveret. Undertegnede benægter ikke, at Indbindingen er elegant; han benægter, at Indbindingen, sammen med Silkesløifen og den lille trykte gyldne Stjerne, er fem Rigsdaler værd for et dannet Publikum, der i mange af sine Medlemmer kæmper under den Brødprisstigning, den foregaaende Vinter har foranlediget. Han anbefaler de af sine Læsere, der fristes af Titelen, at de skulle beholde deres fem Rigsdaler i deres Punger, og at de skulle i Stedet for samme Sum kjøbe noget af de meer substantielle Bind, Sæsonen har frembragt — den nye Udgave af Holbergs Comedier, for Exempel, eller Bisp Mynsters Levnetsbog, hvoraf begge erholdes til en sammenlignelig Pris, og hvoraf begge indeholde, efter Undertegnedes Vidnesbyrd, det Stof, der bekjendtgjøres paa deres Titelblade.
Undertegnede tilbyder Hr. Notabene et sidste Ord. Det dannede Publikum er i nogle Sager taalmodigt; men dets Taalmod er ikke uden Grændse. Hr. Notabene har i sit Bind spottet den Procedure, hvorved Kongerigets speculative Litteratur i de forløbne ti Aar er bleven ført; og Spotten er efter Undertegnedes Anskuelse fuldkommen paa Plads, idet Proceduren fortjener Spotten og meer. Men Hr. Notabene har ikke opfattet, at han ved at spotte Proceduren selv har antaget Proceduren; at det Bind, hvormed han spotter Bekjendtgjørelsen af uudarbeidede Systemer, selv er Bekjendtgjørelsen af et uudarbeidet System; og at hans Læsere, havende betalt fem Rigsdaler for Spotten, ere berettigede til at spørge, om Spotten ved at være betalt for ikke ogsaa er et Stykke af den selvsamme Imposition, hvilken den formaster sig at spotte. Undertegnede efterlader Spørgsmaalet hos Hr. Notabene. Han forventer intet Svar.
Carl P., Udgiver.
The editor reprints, in the present second edition, four of the notices which the first edition called forth in the periodical press. He has selected the four with a view to representing the different temperaments which the cultivated public has brought to the volume; he believes that the reader, in comparing them, will form a juster estimate of the first edition than any single notice could supply. The editor's thanks are due to each of the four journals for their permission to reprint.
I. From Fædrelandet, No. 19, the 23rd of January 1845.
The cultivated reader of Copenhagen has, on more than one occasion in the past decade, had the curious sensation of finding, upon opening a New Year's gift-book, that the volume corresponded in every particular to what he had been led, by the periodical announcements, to expect. The sensation has its pleasures, but its pleasures are limited; they are the pleasures of having one's expectations fulfilled, which is the lowest of the literary pleasures. The Logical System now placed before us by the editor Mr. Notabene affords a pleasure of an altogether higher order. The cultivated reader, opening the volume, finds that the volume does not correspond to what he had been led to expect; that it contains, where the §§ 5 and following should stand, an Anhang which apologises for their absence; and that the apology, far from being a defect of the volume, is the volume's chief original contribution. The reviewer has rarely encountered a more elegant inversion. The publication of the introductory paragraphs of a System, accompanied by a candid notice that the System itself has not been drafted, is a procedure which the speculative literature of our age has long since adopted, but has hitherto adopted without acknowledgment. Mr. Notabene has had the originality to acknowledge it. By acknowledging it, he has converted what was, in his predecessors, a defect of the procedure into a feature of the procedure. He has, as it were, completed the procedure by completing the candour with which the procedure is conducted.
The reviewer is, however, compelled to enter one reservation, which the editor will, the reviewer hopes, receive in the spirit in which it is offered. The candour of the volume's closing pages, admirable in itself, is permitted by the editor to take, at certain moments, the form of a reflection upon the speculative literature of our predecessors — a form which, if pressed, might be construed as an intimation that the predecessors have done less well than they have proposed to do. The reviewer would not wish to suppose that the editor has intended any such intimation. He would prefer to suppose that the editor's candour, having begun upon his own pages, has merely extended, by an inadvertence, to pages not his own; and that the editor will, in a future edition, restrict his candour to its proper subject. With this reservation entered, the reviewer commends the volume to the cultivated public, in the confidence that it will be received as it deserves. Of all the New Year's gift-books offered in the present season, the volume edited by Mr. Notabene is the only one which has had the courage to be, on its own admission, the volume one is. It is sold at C. A. Reitzel's. The price is one Rigsdaler four Mark in stitched covers, five Rigsdaler in the gilt case with the silk ribbon. The reviewer is informed by the publisher that a second edition is in contemplation.
Reviewed by ——
II. From Berlingske Tidende, No. 31, the 6th of February 1845.
A pleasing volume has lately appeared from the press of Bianco Luno, sold at Mr. Reitzel's establishment, which the cultivated families of the capital will, the present notice ventures to predict, find of interest as a New Year's offering of unusual elegance. The volume is bound in white kid with a deep gold stamp, the ornament — a serpent in the act of biting its own tail — being executed with a precision that reflects credit upon the Danish binders' guild. The gilt edges are particularly fine; the silk ribbon, of a pale blue much in vogue this season, is sewn into the spine rather than glued, in the German manner, and will not detach during the volume's first reading. The price, five Rigsdaler in the case and one Rigsdaler four Mark in stitched covers, is, in the view of the reviewer, not excessive.
The contents of the volume are a Logical System, in four paragraphs, by Mr. Notabene, whose name is, the reviewer believes, new to our literature. The paragraphs are written in a manner which the reviewer found agreeable, although he was unable, on a single reading, to follow the speculative argument in every particular. He understands, on the authority of a friend who has applied himself to such matters more diligently than the reviewer, that the first three paragraphs are translated from the German of Hegel, while the fourth is the contribution of Mr. Notabene himself; the reviewer is unable to confirm the attribution but reports it for the benefit of those readers who attach importance to questions of authorship. There follows an Appendix in which the author has the candour to acknowledge that the System is not yet complete, and a Subscription Notice for the succeeding volumes. The reviewer regards the Appendix as an unusual feature; he cannot recall having previously encountered, in a New Year's gift-book, an admission of this kind, and would venture the opinion that the admission, while no doubt creditable to Mr. Notabene as a man, may not be a quality which the cultivated reader will wish to encounter in his New Year's gift on any frequent occasion.
The volume is recommended for placement on the Christmas tree of households which receive their gifts on the morning rather than the evening of the New Year, the gilt being of a depth which the candlelight of Christmas Eve might, in close proximity, discolour. The reviewer adds his warm wishes for the success of the second instalment, which Mr. Notabene's preface announces for the New Year of 1846.
Communicated by a correspondent.
III. From Intelligensbladene, No. 53, the 14th of February 1845. (The editor of the present second edition acknowledges his particular obligation to the editor of this journal, by whose courtesy the notice is reprinted.)
A new contribution to the speculative literature of the kingdom has been laid before the cultivated public over the late Christmas season, in the form of a duodecimo volume edited by Mr. Notabene and offered, with that elegance of production which the season demands, as a New Year's gift. The volume contains the introductory paragraphs of a Logical System, together with an Anhang in which the editor explains the postponement of the further paragraphs to a succeeding volume. The notice which the present journal proposes to offer must, of necessity, fall short of the volume's deserts; the matters touched upon in the four paragraphs are of such depth that a periodical organ cannot, within the space allotted to it, do them justice. The reader is referred, for an adequate treatment, to such forthcoming numbers of the present journal as may, in due course, take up the speculative questions involved.
We confine ourselves, in the present notice, to the following observations.
First. The undertaking of a Logical System is, in our literature, not a novel one. The cultivated reader will recall that the announcement of such a System has been a feature of the Danish speculative press for upwards of a decade, the announcements having been issued, with the dignity which the matter requires, by writers whose names are known to every reader of these columns. The procedure of announcement-followed-by-subscription is a procedure which has served our literature well, and which the present journal has on more than one occasion defended against the criticisms of those who, having less familiarity with the requirements of speculative thought than they suppose, have imagined that the procedure stood in need of justification. The procedure stands in no such need. It is the procedure proper to a System whose dignity is too great to permit its precipitate completion; the announcements have, accordingly, the value of the System itself in advance, and the subscriber who has paid in advance for the announced volumes has been, throughout the period of the announcements, in possession of what was announced.
Second. Mr. Notabene has, in the Anhang to his volume, departed somewhat from this procedure, in that he has acknowledged, in print, the non-arrival of the paragraphs §§ 5 and following. The acknowledgment is, in the view of the present journal, perhaps excessive. To acknowledge the non-arrival of a portion of a System is to invite the public into a consideration of the System's incompleteness which the public is not, in general, qualified to undertake; the consideration belongs properly to the author, and the public has, by the practice of the past decade, been content to allow it to remain in the author's keeping. We do not say that Mr. Notabene has erred. We say only that the procedure he has adopted, while it has the merit of candour, may have the demerit of confusing those of his readers who have hitherto received their speculative volumes in the manner customary to the kingdom, and who may now suppose that what was customary is, by Mr. Notabene's example, no longer to be expected.
Third. We venture the further observation, with the deference proper to the venerable name we are about to invoke, that the volume might have been the more welcome had its editor seen fit to direct his speculative labours toward those matters which the recent astronomical publications of a most distinguished member of our literary republic have at last brought within the reach of the cultivated public. The heavens have been opened above us. The continuation of those labours is, in the view of the present journal, the most pressing speculative task of the present hour. Mr. Notabene, whose evident gifts qualify him for the undertaking, may perhaps, in his second volume, find it possible to direct his pen toward the astronomical matter rather than toward the elaboration of paragraphs which, the cultivated reader will be the first to admit, have already been adequately handled in the writings of our predecessors. We commit the suggestion to Mr. Notabene's reflection, with the assurance that it is offered in the spirit of friendship.
The volume is to be obtained at Mr. Reitzel's. The price has been already noticed.
Reviewed by a member of the editorial committee.
IV. From Kjøbenhavnsposten, No. 27, the 1st of February 1845.
The undersigned has, in the present number, the disagreeable task of bringing to the attention of his readers a New Year's gift-book of a kind which, in the opinion of the undersigned, ought not to have been offered to the public at the price at which it is being offered, or indeed at any price whatever.
The volume is the work of one Mr. Notabene, of whom the undersigned has no further information than that he has had the audacity to print, upon the title page of his volume, the words Det logiske System — the Logical System — and to charge the cultivated public five Rigsdaler the copy in its gilt case for the receipt of a volume which, by the author's own admission on its closing pages, does not contain the Logical System at all. The volume contains, in place of the System, four short paragraphs of a kind which the undersigned remembers having read, with much profit, in the Hegelian compendia which were placed before him during his student years; and then a long Appendix in which the author informs the cultivated public that the System has not been written, that it is not, in fact, to be written by the appointed date, that the appointed date is not, in any case, the right date for it, and that the cultivated public is therefore invited, having paid five Rigsdaler for the present volume, to pay a further sum in subscription for the volume which is to follow.
The undersigned begs the indulgence of his readers if he expresses himself with some warmth. The undersigned has not been able, in the course of a long career in the periodical press, to recall a more extraordinary instance of the imposition of the literary establishment upon the patient pockets of the Copenhagen public. The volume is, on its own admission, an empty volume. The five Rigsdaler asked for it are paid for the binding, the silk ribbon, and the small printed gold star which Mr. Notabene has caused to be inserted on page 47, no further content being supplied. The undersigned does not deny that the binding is elegant; he denies that the binding, together with the silk ribbon and the small printed gold star, is worth five Rigsdaler to a cultivated public which is, in many of its members, struggling under the rise in the price of bread which the preceding winter has occasioned. He recommends to those of his readers who are tempted by the title that they should keep their five Rigsdaler in their purses, and that they should, instead, purchase with the same sum any of the more substantial volumes which the season has produced — the new edition of Holberg's comedies, for example, or the Levnetsbog of Bishop Mynster, both of which are obtainable for a comparable price and both of which contain, by the testimony of the undersigned, the matter which is announced upon their title pages.
The undersigned offers a final word to Mr. Notabene. The cultivated public is, in some matters, patient; but its patience is not without limit. Mr. Notabene has, in his volume, mocked the procedure by which the speculative literature of the kingdom has been, for the past decade, conducted; and the mocking is, in the view of the undersigned, perfectly in place, the procedure deserving the mockery and more. But Mr. Notabene has not perceived that, in mocking the procedure, he has himself adopted the procedure; that the volume by which he mocks the announcement of unwritten Systems is itself the announcement of an unwritten System; and that his readers, having paid five Rigsdaler for the mockery, are entitled to ask whether the mockery, in being paid for, is not also a piece of the very imposition which it presumes to mock. The undersigned leaves the question with Mr. Notabene. He does not anticipate an answer.
Carl P., Editor.
UDGIVERENS TAKNEMMELIGE NOTICE
Om de foregaaende Anmeldelser.
Udgiveren kan ikke lade de foregaaende Anmeldelser staae uden at optegne sin særlige Forbindelse til deres Forfattere. Det er bemærket af en Autoritet for vel bekjendt at fordre Citation, at Litteratur og Journalistik, naar de arbeide Haand i Haand, frembringe en Fremtid for det danske Folk af usædvanlig Lysthed; og nærværende Tilfælde er, fremfører Udgiveren, et Exempel paa Haand-i-Haands-Operationen i dens rigeste Form, idet Litteraturen er bleven leveret af Udgiveren, Journalistiken af ikke færre end fire periodiske Organer, og Hænderne ere blevne foldede i fire forskjellige Maader, der tagne tilsammen udvise vor Tids speculative Bevægelse i noget nær dens fulde Udstrækning.
Den første Anmelder, af Fædrelandet, har leveret den Beskrivelse, hvorved det dannede Publikum blev ledet til at erhverve den første Udgave af Bindet. Idet den første Udgave er bleven gjenefterspurgt, før Foraaret var omme, er den anden Udgave ved en Kjæde for gjennemsigtig til at fordre videre Udredning Følgen af hans Notice. Udgiveren optegner sin Forbindelse i de varmeste Vendinger. Kjæden er kort og Operationen gjennemsigtig. Udgiveren gjenkjender i den vor Tids speculative Bevægelse i dens commercielle Form; og som den speculative Bevægelse i vor Litteratur er den høieste Form, saa er den commercielle Bevægelse i vor Handel den sundeste Form, og Udgiveren lykønsker Anmelderen, Boghandleren, Publikum og sig selv med Operationen. Anmelderen har indført eet Forbehold, hvilket Udgiveren vil besvare i en enkelt Sætning. Det var ikke Udgiverens Hensigt at antyde, at hans Forgjængere havde gjort mindre vel, end de havde foreslaaet; om nogen saadan Antydning fremtræder i Bindets afsluttende Sider, skal den tilskrives Udgiverens literære Instruments Begrænsninger, der ikke altid har været fint nok til at indskrænke sin Aabenhjertighed til sin rette Gjenstand. Udgiveren vil i fremtidige Udgaver bestræbe sig paa at forbedre Instrumentet.
Den anden Anmelder, af Berlingske Tidende, har ydet en Tjeneste af en aldeles anden Orden. Han har taget Bindet i Øiesyn fra Standpunktet af de af vore dannede Læsere — og de ere ikke den mindste Deel af Publikum — der bryde sig mindre om en Nytaarsgaves speculative Argumentation end om dens Productions Elegance. Han har examineret Indbindingen, Guldet, Silkesløifen og den lille trykte gyldne Stjerne med den Discrimination, der sømmer sig disse Sager, og har afsagt over dem en Dom, hvortil Udgiveren intet har at føie. Han har i Henseende til Indholdet fremsat een eller to Tilskrivninger, hvilke Udgiveren med al Ærefrygt vil afslaae at corrigere, idet Correctionerne vilde have Pedanteris Skin og i ethvert Tilfælde alene vilde forandre Identiteten af den Kilde, hvorfra de tre første Paragrapher formodes at være laante, ikke Faktum af Laanet, som Anmelderens Ven i det Hele har korrekt opfattet. Udgiveren anbefaler den anden Anmelders Notice til de af sine Læsere, der lægge Vægt paa en Nytaarsgaves physiske Træk, og vil alene bemærke, at de forgyldte Snit af den anden Udgave ere, som Notitsen paa nærværende Bindes andet Blad indrømmer, af mindre generøs Dybde end den første Udgaves; den dannede Læser, der har erhvervet begge Udgaver, vil opfatte Forskjellen og vil, tiltro Udgiveren, tilskrive den Pris-Nedsættelsen frem for nogen Formindskelse af Udgiverens Hengivenhed for Publikum.
Den tredie Anmelder, af Intelligensbladene, har bragt Udgiveren under en Forbindelse meer delicat end de andre, idet han har været saa god at antyde, at Udgiverens Bind maatte have været forbedret ved en nærmere Opmærksomhed mod et distingveret Medlem af vor litterære Republiks astronomiske Arbeider. Udgiveren modtager Antydningen med den Taknemmelighed, der sømmer sig den, og vilde bemærke som Svar, at han i sin egen beskedne Maade har forsøgt at rette Opmærksomheden mod hine selvsamme Arbeider i et andet Bind udsendt i samme Sæson, hvortil Bind den dannede Læser ærbødigt henvises; Urania af December 1844 er paa sit Titelblad tilegnet den paagjeldende Professor og henvender sig gjennem hele sit Indhold til hans astronomiske Værks Fortsættelse. Udgiveren beklager, at Intelligensbladets Anmelder ved at anmelde nærværende Bind ikke ogsaa anmeldte Urania; havde han gjort det, vilde Udgiverens astronomiske Forpligtelser i hans Tidsskrifts Spalter have staaet i deres rette Forhold til hans speculative Forpligtelser, og Antydningen vilde ikke have været fornøden. Udgiveren optegner Udeladelsen uden Bebreidelse; Intelligensbladet har i det forløbne Decennium leveret saa meget fortrinligt til Kongerigets Litteratur, at Udgiveren ikke ved nærværende Anledning kan klage over en Udeladelse. Han vil i fremtidige Udgaver haabe at være Anledningen til færre saadanne Udeladelser.
Den fjerde Anmelder, af Kjøbenhavnsposten, har udtrykt sig med en Kraft, hvilken Udgiveren ikke vil paatage sig at matche. Han har beskyldt Udgiveren i Substans for at spotte Proceduren med uopfyldt Bekjendtgjørelse ved at antage Proceduren med uopfyldt Bekjendtgjørelse. Beskyldningen er, tilstaaer Udgiveren, vel placeret. Han har faktisk antaget Proceduren. Han har gjort det under den Overbeviisning, at at udstille en Procedure udenfra Proceduren i Almindelighed er mindre virksomt end at udvise Proceduren indenfra den; og at det dannede Publikum, havende fået Proceduren udvist for sig i nærværende Bind, vilde være i en bedre Stilling til at gjenkjende Proceduren, naar det næste Gang mødte den i Kongerigets speculative Litteratur, end det vilde have været, havde Proceduren alene været beskrevet i et eller andet critisk Skrift, hvis Salg i ethvert Tilfælde vilde have været mindre end nærværende Binds. Udgiveren overdrager Ræsonneringen til Anmelderens Reflexion og skal være tilfreds, om Anmelderen ved Reflexion fortsat finder hans Bind ubehageligt. At findes ubehageligt af Kjøbenhavnsposten er i den nærværende Tilstand af vor periodiske Presse en Anbefaling, hvoraf ethvert speculativt Bind maatte være stolt, og som Udgiveren modtager i den Aand af den fire-aars Subscription paa Tidsskriftet, han nu, til Erkjendelse, tegner under en tredie Parts Navn.
Udgiveren tilføier i Slutning en enkelt Iagttagelse. De fire ovenstaaende Anmeldelser ere ikke de eneste Notitser, den første Udgave foranledigede i den periodiske Presse; de ere et Udvalg. Der fremkom desuden en lille Notits i Adresseavisen, der angav, hvor Bindet kunde erhverves; en længere Notits i Maanedsskrift for Litteratur, hvilken Udgiveren ikke har været i Stand til at erholde i Tide for nærværende Udgave; en Paragraph i Dansk Kirketidende, der hovedsagelig henvendte sig til de speculative Farer ved at skrive Systemer i Nytaarsgavens Form, og concluderede at Farerne i det Hele oversteges af Fordelene; og endelig en kort Notits i Corsaren, hvis Optrykning Udgiveren ikke vil paatage sig, idet Notitsen er af en saadan Slags, som Udgiveren vil overlade til de af sine Læsere, der ere Subscribenter paa det Tidsskrift. Udvalget ovenfor er bestemt til at repræsentere de fornemste Sindelag i den dannede Presse i de første Maaneder af 1845, med den Forstaaelse, at Pressen ligesom Publikum indeholder andre Sindelag, som et fyldigere Udvalg i sin Tid vilde udvise.
On the foregoing reviews.
The editor cannot allow the foregoing reviews to stand without recording his particular obligation to their authors. It has been observed, by an authority too well known to require citation, that literature and journalism, when they work hand in hand, produce a future for the Danish people of unusual brightness; and the present case is, the editor submits, an instance of the hand-and-hand operation in its richest form, the literature having been supplied by the editor, the journalism by no fewer than four periodical organs, and the hands having been clasped in four distinct manners which, taken together, exhibit the speculative motion of our age in something like its full extension.
The first reviewer, of Fædrelandet, has supplied the description by which the cultivated public was led to procure the first edition of the volume. The first edition having been called for again before the spring was out, the second edition is, by a chain too transparent to require further exposition, the consequence of his notice. The editor records his obligation in the warmest terms. The chain is short and the operation transparent. The editor recognises in it the speculative motion of our age in its commercial form; and as the speculative motion is, in our literature, the highest form, so the commercial motion is, in our trade, the soundest form, and the editor congratulates the reviewer, the bookseller, the public, and himself upon the operation. The reviewer has entered one reservation, which the editor will reply to in a single sentence. It was not the editor's intention to intimate that his predecessors had done less well than they had proposed; if any such intimation appears in the closing pages of the volume, it is to be attributed to the limitations of the editor's literary instrument, which has not always been fine enough to confine its candour to its proper subject. The editor will, in future editions, endeavour to improve the instrument.
The second reviewer, of Berlingske Tidende, has rendered a service of an altogether different order. He has approached the volume from the standpoint of those of our cultivated readers — and they are not the smallest portion of the public — who care less for the speculative argument of a New Year's gift-book than for the elegance of its production. He has examined the binding, the gilt, the silk ribbon, and the small printed gold star with the discrimination proper to those matters, and has pronounced upon them a verdict to which the editor has nothing to add. He has, in respect of the contents, made one or two attributions which the editor will, with all deference, decline to correct, since the corrections would have the appearance of pedantry, and would in any case alter only the identity of the source from which the first three paragraphs are supposed to have been borrowed, not the fact of the borrowing, which the reviewer's friend has, on the whole, correctly perceived. The editor recommends the second reviewer's notice to those of his readers who attach importance to the physical features of a New Year's gift-book, and would observe only that the gilt edges of the second edition have been, as the notice on the second leaf of the present volume admits, of a less generous depth than the gilt edges of the first; the cultivated reader who has procured both editions will perceive the difference, and will, the editor trusts, attribute it to the reduction in price rather than to any diminution in the publisher's regard for the public.
The third reviewer, of Intelligensbladene, has placed the editor under an obligation more delicate than the others, since he has been so good as to intimate that the editor's volume might have been improved by a closer attention to the astronomical labours of a distinguished member of our literary republic. The editor receives the intimation with the gratitude proper to it, and would observe, by way of reply, that he has, in his own modest fashion, attempted to direct attention toward those very labours in another volume issued during the same season, to which volume the cultivated reader is respectfully referred; the Urania of December 1844 is, on its title page, dedicated to the Professor in question and addresses itself, throughout its contents, to the continuation of his astronomical work. The editor regrets that the reviewer of the Intelligensblade, in noticing the present volume, did not also notice the Urania; had he done so, the editor's astronomical commitments would have stood, in his journal's columns, in their proper relation to his speculative commitments, and the intimation would not have been required. The editor records the omission without reproach; the Intelligensblade has, in the past decade, supplied so much that is excellent to the literature of the kingdom that the editor cannot, on the present occasion, complain of an omission. He will, in future editions, hope to be the occasion of fewer such omissions.
The fourth reviewer, of Kjøbenhavnsposten, has expressed himself with a vigour which the editor will not undertake to match. He has accused the editor, in substance, of mocking the procedure of unfulfilled announcement by adopting the procedure of unfulfilled announcement. The accusation is, the editor confesses, well placed. He has indeed adopted the procedure. He has done so under the conviction that to expose a procedure from outside the procedure is in general less effective than to exhibit the procedure from within it; and that the cultivated public, having had the procedure exhibited to it in the present volume, would be in a better position to recognise the procedure when it next encountered it in the speculative literature of the kingdom than it would have been had the procedure been merely described in some critical pamphlet whose sale would, in any case, have been smaller than the present volume's. The editor commends the reasoning to the reviewer's reflection, and will be content if the reviewer, on reflection, continues to find his volume disagreeable. To be found disagreeable by Kjøbenhavnsposten is, in the present state of our periodical press, a recommendation of which any speculative volume might be proud, and which the editor accepts in the spirit of the four years' subscription to the journal which he is now, by way of acknowledgment, taking out under a third party's name.
The editor adds, in closing, a single observation. The four reviews above are not the only notices which the first edition called forth in the periodical press; they are a selection. There appeared, in addition, a small notice in the Adresseavisen indicating where the volume could be procured; a longer notice in the Maanedsskrift for Litteratur which the editor has not been able to obtain in time for the present edition; a paragraph in the Dansk Kirketidende which addressed itself chiefly to the speculative dangers of writing Systems in the New Year's gift-book form, and concluded that the dangers were on the whole outweighed by the benefits; and, finally, a short notice in Corsaren, the reprinting of which the editor will not undertake, the notice being of such a kind as the editor will leave to those of his readers who are subscribers to that journal. The selection above is intended to represent the chief temperaments of the cultivated press in the first months of 1845, with the understanding that the press, like the public, contains other temperaments which a fuller selection would, in due course, exhibit.
INDHOLD
De fire Paragrapher af det logiske System (§§ 1–4), tillige med den oprindelige Fortale, Anhanget om de udeblevne §§ 5 og følgende, Subscriptions-Indbydelsen paa Bind II, samt det oprindelige Efterskrift af Udgiveren, optrykkes i nærværende Udgave fra den førstes Plader uden Forandring. Den dannede Læser, der ønsker at verificere Paastanden, kan sammenligne nærværende Udgave med sit Exemplar af den første.
Følgende nye Stof er føiet til:
— Fortale til Anden Udgave. (Leveret ovenfor.)
— Aftrykte Anmeldelser, i fire nummererede Notitser: fra Fædrelandet, fra Berlingske Tidende, fra Intelligensbladene og fra Kjøbenhavnsposten. (Leverede ovenfor.)
— Udgiverens Taknemmelige Notice om de foregaaende Anmeldelser. (Leveret ovenfor.)
— Errata for den første Udgave. (Nedenfor.)
— Anmærkning angaaende det udeblevne Bind II. (Nedenfor.)
— Fornyet Subscriptions-Indbydelse paa Bind II. (Nedenfor.)
— Fortegnelse over Subscribenterne paa det fuldendte System, delvis Rulle, med Mærker ud for de Afdøde. (Nedenfor.)
— Efterskrift af Udgiveren til den Anden Udgave. (Nedenfor.)
Den dannede Læser vil opfatte, at det nye Stof er ved Længde betydeligt større end det optrykte Stof; og at nærværende Udgave, medens den i Krop er identisk med sin Forgjænger, ved Tilføielserne er bleven forøget — det vil sige, udvidet — og ved de Rettelser, som Tilføielserne indrømme, forbedret. Forlæggeren reiser paa Titelbladet alene Krav om, hvad der her demonstreres.
The four paragraphs of the Logical System (§§ 1–4), together with the original Fortale, the Anhang on the absent §§ 5 and following, the Subscription Notice for Bind II, and the original Editor's Afterword, are reprinted in the present edition from the plates of the first, without alteration. The cultivated reader who wishes to verify the assertion may compare the present edition with his copy of the first.
The following new matter has been added:
— Fortale til Anden Udgave. (Supplied above.)
— Aftrykte Anmeldelser, in four numbered notices: from Fædrelandet, from Berlingske Tidende, from Intelligensbladene, and from Kjøbenhavnsposten. (Supplied above.)
— Editor's Grateful Notice on the foregoing reviews. (Supplied above.)
— Errata for the First Edition. (Below.)
— Anmærkning angaaende det udeblevne Bind II. (Below.)
— Fornyet Subscription Notice for Bind II. (Below.)
— Fortegnelse over Subscribenterne paa det fuldendte System, partial roll, with marks against the deceased. (Below.)
— Editor's Afterword to the Anden Udgave. (Below.)
The cultivated reader will perceive that the new matter is, by length, considerably greater than the matter reprinted; and that the present edition, while in body identical with its predecessor, has been, by the additions, forøget — which is to say, enlarged — and, by the corrections of which the additions admit, forbedret — which is to say, improved. The publisher claims, on the title page, only what is here demonstrated.
ERRATA FOR DEN FØRSTE UDGAVE
Udgiveren har i Forberedelsen af den anden Udgave gjennemført saadan Undersøgelse af den første Udgaves Text, som Produktionen af et Folkeoptryk tillader. Han optegner i nærværende Notits den eneste Correction, Undersøgelsen har ydet.
Side 47, nedre høire Hjørne. For den lille trykte gyldne Stjerne, læs: en lille trykt gylden Stjerne med fem Spidser; idet den første Udgaves Gravør ved en Forsømmelse, Udgiveren beklager, leverede en Stjerne med sex Spidser, hvilket den dannede Læser, der har examineret Siden med Opmærksomhed, vil have iagttaget. Correctionen er stiltiende foretaget i nærværende Udgave, hvori Stjernen, foruden at være trykt med sort frem for med Guld af de Grunde fremstillede paa nærværende Bindes andet Blad, ogsaa er reduceret til fem Spidser i Overeensstemmelse med Udgiverens oprindelige Specification.
Udgiveren tillader sig een videre Iagttagelse, som den dannede Læser har Frihed til at afskedige som Udgiverens idée fixe. Det vil ikke have undgaaet den dannede Læsers Opmærksomhed, at det foregaaende er den eneste Correction, Udgiveren har været i Stand til at indføre i nærværende Errata; og at Correctionen vedrører ikke en Passage af den speculative Argumentation, men en ornamental Stjerne trykt i Hjørnet af den syv og fyrretyvende Side. Udgiveren tilstaar Misforholdet. Han er i den Stilling som een, der har examineret et langt Manuscript for Trykkeren og har fundet efter al sin Examination alene, at Ornamentet i eet Hjørne er af forkert Skikkelse.
Dette Misforhold er, fremfører Udgiveren, ikke en Mangel ved hans Examination, men en Egenskab ved Bindet. Et Bind, hvis Indhold ved sin egen Tilstaaelse endnu ikke er leveret, er et Bind, hvori de sædvanlige Anledninger til Feil ere fraværende. Der ere ingen Postulater at misformulere; der ere ingen Citater at miscitere; der ere ingen Formler at fejlsætte af Sætteren. Sætteren af den første Udgave, havende foran sig alene de fire indledende Paragrapher og Anhanget, mødte i sit Arbeides Forløb ingen af de Vanskeligheder, Sætteren af et fuldt speculativt Tractat møder ved hver Paragraph; og Correcturlæseren, examinerende Korrekturen, havde intet at rette, der ikke var blevet rettet af Sætterens naturlige Forsigtighed. Errata for et Bind, der intet bestemt indeholder, kan kun rette sig mod de Bestemtheder, som Bindet ved en Forsømmelse har indeholdt — blandt hvilke den lille trykte gyldne Stjerne ved Inspektion er den eneste.
Udgiveren overdrager Iagttagelsen til den dannede Læsers Reflexion. Han vil ikke udvikle den videre. Han bemærker alene, med saadan Tilfredshed, som Sagen tillader, at det dannede Publikum ved at modtage den første Udgave uden Klage over den sex-spidsede Stjerne atter har demonstreret den sunde Dømmekraft, der har præget dets Omgang med nærværende Række; den paagjeldende Stjerne værende efter Udgiverens Anskuelse en mindre material Mangel end nogen Feil i den speculative Argumentation vilde have været, havde den speculative Argumentation leveret nogen Anledning til Feil.
The editor has, in preparing the second edition, conducted such examination of the text of the first edition as the production of a popular reprint permits. He records, in the present notice, the single correction which the examination has yielded.
Page 47, lower right-hand corner. For the small printed gold star, read a small printed gold star with five points; the engraver of the first edition having, by an oversight which the editor regrets, supplied a star of six points, which the cultivated reader who has examined the page with attention will have observed. The correction has been silently made in the present edition, in which the star, in addition to having been printed in black rather than in gold for the reasons set forth on the second leaf of the present volume, has also been reduced to five points, in accordance with the editor's original specification.
The editor permits himself one further observation, which the cultivated reader is at liberty to dismiss as the editor's idée fixe. It will not have escaped the cultivated reader's notice that the foregoing is the only correction which the editor has been able to enter into the present Errata; and that the correction concerns not a passage of the speculative argument but an ornamental star printed in the corner of the forty-seventh page. The editor confesses the disproportion. He is in the position of one who has examined a long manuscript for the printer and has found, after all his examination, only that the ornament in one corner is of the wrong shape.
This disproportion is not, the editor submits, a defect of his examination but a property of the volume. A volume whose content, by its own acknowledgment, is not yet supplied is a volume in which the customary occasions for error are absent. There are no propositions to be misstated; there are no quotations to be misascribed; there are no formulae to be misset by the compositor. The compositor of the first edition, having had before him only the four introductory paragraphs and the Anhang, encountered in the course of his labour none of the difficulties which the compositor of a full speculative treatise encounters at every paragraph; and the proof-reader, examining the proofs, had nothing to set right that had not been set right by the compositor's natural prudence. The Errata for a volume which contains nothing in particular can only address itself to those particulars which the volume has, by an oversight, contained — among which the small printed gold star is, on inspection, the only one.
The editor commits the observation to the cultivated reader's reflection. He will not develop it further. He notes only, with such satisfaction as the matter permits, that the cultivated public, in receiving the first edition without complaint of the six-pointed star, has demonstrated once again the sound judgment which has marked its dealings with the present series; the star in question being, in the editor's view, a less material defect than would have been any error in the speculative argument, had the speculative argument supplied any occasion for error.
ANMÆRKNING ANGAAENDE DET UDEBLEVNE BIND II.
Læseren vil erindre, at Subscriptions-Indbydelsen vedføiet den første Udgave bekjendtgjorde Bind II af det logiske System til Nytaar 1846. Den dannede Læser, holdende nærværende Bind i sine Hænder ved Begyndelsen af Aaret 1846, vil være i Stand til at iagttage, at Bind II ikke er fremkommet.
Udgiveren skylder Læseren, der nu to Gange er blevet lovet det samme, en Forklaring.
I Foraaret 1845 paatog Udgiveren sig Udarbeidelsen af §§ 5 og følgende i Overeensstemmelse med den Forpligtelse, der blev indgaaet i Anhanget til den første Udgave. §§ skred frem, i Udgiverens forberedende Notitsbog, til § 7, paa hvilket Punkt en Vanskelighed indtraf. Vanskeligheden var ikke en Indholds-Vanskelighed; Indholdet af §§ 5, 6 og 7 har ved Inspektion frembudt faa Hindringer og er i Udgiverens Notitsbog nedfældet med en Klarhed, hvortil alene Gravørens Haand fordres for at oversætte den i et udgivet Binds Form. Vanskeligheden var af en anden Orden. Det var den Vanskelighed, at idet det originale Bidrag nu (ved § 7) i maalelig Afstand var at blive fuldendt, fandt Udgiveren sig ude af Stand til at afgjøre, med den Sikkerhed, Trykkeren fordrer, hvad det originale Bidrag skulde bestaa af. Han havde formodet, da den første Udgave blev udsendt, at han vidste det. Han havde ja formodet, at §§ 5 og følgende paa Tiden af den første Udgave allerede vare udarbeidede med Blyant og blot afventede Transcription. Han fandt, da han aabnede sin Notitsbog i Foraaret 1845, at §§ ikke vare udarbeidede, men projecterede; at hvad der havde staaet i hans Hukommelse som et Udkast, ved Inspektion var en Overskrift; og at Overskriften, naar afhørt ved den for Systemet rette Procedure, opløste sig i det videre Spørgsmaal om, hvad Indhold Overskriften skulde indlede.
Jeg skal ikke trætte den dannede Læser med Detaillerne af Udgiverens Arbeider i Maanederne April, Mai og Juni 1845. Han kan være forsikret om, at Arbeiderne bleve forfulgte med den Flid, der sømmer sig Foretagendet, og at Arbeidernes Resultat er følgende: at det originale Bidrag, som det stod i Udgiverens Hensigt paa den første Udgaves Tidspunkt, endnu ikke er muligt. Det er ikke muligt, fordi den speculative Tænkning, der skal udgjøre dets Indhold, endnu ikke er bleven, af vor Tids dannede Læser, tænkt; og Udgiveren, i at paatage sig at udarbeide den forud for dens Tænkning, paatog sig hvad ikke kan udføres. Udgiveren, havende naaet denne Conclusion, lagde sin Pen ned og helligede Efteraaret 1845 til andre Sager.
Den dannede Læser vil modtage den nærværende Tilstaaelse, haaber Udgiveren, med den Eqvanimitet, Sagen fortjener. Der er i Udsættelsen af et System, hvis Anticipation er det dannede Publikums fornemste speculative Tilfredsstillelse, ingen Anledning til Skuffelse. Systemet er bleven udsat; Anticipationen vedbliver; det dannede Publikum, idet det vedbliver at anticipere, vedbliver at modtage, hvad det i de forløbne tredive Aar faktisk har modtaget af vor Nations speculative Litteratur. Intet har forandret sig. Udgiveren fremfører, at Anmærkningen angaaende det udeblevne Bind II i denne Henseende er af samme speculative Charakter som Anhanget angaaende de udeblevne §§ 5 og følgende: hver er en Notits om, at det Lovede ikke er ankommet; hver er ved at være en Notits traadt i Stedet for det Lovede; og den dannede Læser, idet han læser Notitsen, har modtaget af den den Tilfredsstillelse, det lovede Indhold, var det ankommet, vilde have leveret. Udgiveren anbefaler den speculative Sammentræf til den dannede Læsers Reflexion.
The reader will recall that the Subscription Notice appended to the first edition announced Bind II of the Logical System for the New Year of 1846. The cultivated reader, holding the present volume in his hands at the beginning of the year 1846, will be in a position to observe that Bind II has not appeared.
The editor owes the reader, who has now twice been promised the same thing, an explanation.
In the spring of 1845, the editor undertook the drafting of §§ 5 and following, in accordance with the undertaking entered into in the Anhang to the first edition. The §§ progressed, in the editor's preparatory notebook, to § 7, at which point a difficulty supervened. The difficulty was not a difficulty of content; the content of §§ 5, 6, and 7 had, on inspection, presented few obstacles, and is, in the editor's notebook, set down with a clarity which only the engraver's hand is required to translate into the form of a published volume. The difficulty was of another order. It was the difficulty that, the original contribution being now (at § 7) in measurable distance of being completed, the editor found himself unable to determine, with the assurance which the printer requires, what the original contribution should consist of. He had supposed, when the first edition was published, that he knew. He had supposed, indeed, that the §§ 5 and following had been, at the time of the first edition, already drafted in pencil and merely awaiting transcription. He found, on opening his notebook in the spring of 1845, that the §§ had been not drafted but projected; that what had stood in his memory as a draft was, on inspection, a heading; and that the heading, when interrogated by the procedure proper to the System, dissolved into the further question of what content the heading was to introduce.
I shall not weary the cultivated reader with the details of the editor's labours during the months of April, May, and June 1845. He may be assured that the labours were prosecuted with the diligence proper to the undertaking, and that the result of the labours is the following: that the original contribution, as it stood in the editor's intention at the time of the first edition, is not yet possible. It is not possible because the speculative thought which is to constitute its content has not yet, by the cultivated reader of our age, been thought; and the editor, in undertaking to draft it in advance of its having been thought, was undertaking what cannot be performed. The editor, having reached this conclusion, set down his pen, and devoted the autumn of 1845 to other matters.
The cultivated reader will receive the present admission, the editor hopes, with the equanimity which the matter deserves. There is, in the postponement of a System whose anticipation is the cultivated public's chief speculative satisfaction, no occasion for disappointment. The System has been postponed; the anticipation continues; the cultivated public, in continuing to anticipate, continues to receive what it has, throughout the past thirty years, in fact received from the speculative literature of our nation. Nothing has changed. The editor submits that the Anmærkning concerning the absent Bind II is, in this respect, of the same speculative character as the Anhang concerning the absent §§ 5 and following: each is a notice that what was promised has not arrived; each, by being a notice, has taken the place of what was promised; and the cultivated reader, in reading the notice, has received from it the satisfaction which the promised content would, had it arrived, have supplied. The editor commends the speculative coincidence to the cultivated reader's reflection.
FORNYET SUBSCRIPTIONS-INDBYDELSE PAA BIND II
Udgiveren har den Ære at bekjendtgjøre, at Bind II af det logiske System, udsat fra Nytaar 1846, nu er projecteret til Nytaar 1847. Subscriptions-Vilkaarene bekjendtgjorte i den første Udgave forblive gjeldende; Subscribenter, der havende betalt forud for Bind II til Nytaar 1845 finde, at Bind II ikke er leveret til Nytaar 1846, indbydes til at betragte deres Subscription som vedvarende i Henseende til 1847-Bindet, uden videre Betaling. Subscribenter, der ikke tidligere have subscriberet, kunne gjøre det til den oprindelige Pris. Subscribenter, der ved Reflexion ønske at tilbagetrække deres Subscription, kunne ansøge Forlæggeren, der vil refundere det subscriberede Beløb mod Forevisning af den oprindelige Qvittering og en skriftlig Erklæring om, at Subscribenten ikke længere ønsker at modtage Bindet, naar det i sin Tid fremkommer.
Udgiveren benytter Anledningen til at optegne, at af de fire hundrede og sytten Subscribenter paa hele det logiske System, der indtegnede sig paa Subscribent-Rullen ved Nytaar 1845, har ingen endnu ansøgt om Tilbagetrækning. Denne Omstændighed er, fremfører Udgiveren, en meer veltalende Endossering af nærværende Foretagende, end nogen aftrykt Anmeldelse kunde levere, og optegnes her mod den Dag, paa hvilken Systemet, complet i alle sine Bind, omsider skal leveres, og de fire hundrede og sytten skulle modtage, hvad de med saadan beundringsværdig Taalmod have afventet.
The editor has the honour to announce that Bind II of the Logical System, postponed from the New Year of 1846, is now projected for the New Year of 1847. The terms of subscription announced in the first edition remain in force; subscribers who, having paid in advance for Bind II at the New Year of 1845, find that Bind II has not been delivered at the New Year of 1846, are invited to consider their subscription as continuing in respect of the volume of 1847, without further payment. Subscribers who have not previously subscribed may do so at the original rate. Subscribers who, on reflection, wish to withdraw their subscription may apply to the publisher, who will refund the sum subscribed, on production of the original receipt and a written declaration that the subscriber no longer wishes to receive the volume when, in due course, it appears.
The editor takes the opportunity to record that, of the four hundred and seventeen subscribers to the entire Logical System who entered themselves upon the Subscriber's Roll at the New Year of 1845, none has yet applied for withdrawal. This circumstance is, the editor submits, a more eloquent endorsement of the present undertaking than any aftrykt Anmeldelse could supply, and is here recorded against the day on which the System, complete in all its volumes, shall be at last delivered, and the four hundred and seventeen shall receive what they have, with such admirable patience, awaited.
FORTEGNELSE OVER SUBSCRIBENTERNE
Delvis Rulle af de fire hundrede og sytten Subscribenter paa hele det logiske System, med Mærke († ) ud for dem, der i Forløbet af Aaret 1845 ere afdøde forud for de Bind, hvorpaa de indtegnede sig. Rullen er trykt i den Orden, hvori Subscriptionerne bleve modtagne hos Hr. Reitzels Etablissement; Udgiveren har udvalgt af de fire hundrede og sytten de første fyrretyve Indførelser.
- Etatsraad J. P. Schmidt, Bredgade.
- Frue Conferentsraadinde C. Wolff, Amalienborg Plads. (Subscriberet for sin afdøde Mand, der selv havde til Hensigt at subscribere ved Nytaar; hendes Fortsættelse af hans Hensigt optegnes med Udgiverens særlige Respekt.)
- † Pastor H. C. Lund, ved Holmens Kirke. (Afdøde Subscribent-Rullen forud med to Dage, idet han underskrev Subscriptionen om Morgenen af sin sidste Sygdom. Bindene ville blive leveret til hans Arving, cand. theol. M. C. Lund, der har meddelt sin Hensigt at fastholde Subscriptionen.)
- Cand. theol. M. C. Lund, fordum af Sorø.
- Procurator L. Bang, Strandgade.
- Madame A. M. Falkenberg, Kjøbmagergade. (Noter vedføiede Subscriptionen, med Subscribentens egen Haand: »til min Søn i Aarhus, naar han har naaet den fastsatte Alder«. Udgiveren vil holde Bindene mod Sønnens Myndighedsalder.)
- Lieutenant V. Krieger, Garnisonen.
- Apotheker O. Hjort, ved Nørreport.
- Justitsraad E. T. Hansen, Frederiksberg Allée. (Med den marginale Note: »Jeg skal i Henseende til det æsthetiske System fordre en anden Subscription. Det logiske alene er utilstrækkeligt til mine Behov.«)
- † Stiftsprovst P. H. Bjerring, Roskilde. (Afdøde forud for nærværende anden Udgaves Fremkomst; Arvingerne ansøge om Bind II i hans Sted, Subscriptionen at fortsættes.)
- Magister artium F. Ploug, Kannikestræde.
- Boghandler J. Andersen, Vimmelskaftet. (Subscriberet i Faget med den sædvanlige Rabat; Bindene ville blive detailsolgte af ham, Udgiveren har samtykket i Indretningen.)
- Frue Etatsraadinde M. Heiberg, Søkvæsthuset. (Udgiveren optegner med saadan Beskedenhed, som Sagen tillader, at Subscriptionen blev modtaget den ellevte Januar 1845, det vil sige, efter at de første Anmeldelser vare fremkomne, men før den anden Udgave var sat i Værk. Subscriptionen angiver naturligvis ikke nogen Godkjendelse af Bindets Indhold paa Subscribentens Side, der staaer frit til at disponere over Bindene efter eget Skjøn.)
- Cand. juris O. F. Müller, Vesterport.
- † Frue Postmesterinde S. Rasmussen, Kjøge. (Afdøde ved Drukning paa en Overfart til Lolland; Bindene at leveres til hendes overlevende Datter, der har meddelt sit Ønske om at arve Subscriptionen.)
- Pastor V. C. Brammer, ved Trinitatis.
- Kammerraad J. H. Steenstrup, Vimmelskaftet.
- Cand. phil. S. A. K., Adressen tilbageholdt paa Subscribentens Anmodning. (Udgiveren bemærker i Henseende til Anmodningen alene, at han ikke har været i Stand til at fastslaae af Subscriptions-Formularen, hvorvidt Subscribenten er et Pseudonym, en virkelig Person, der ønsker at forblive ubekjendt, eller, ved en Indretning ikke ubekjendt i vor Litteratur, en Person, der ogsaa er andre Personer; Subscriptionen er bleven indført som den blev modtaget, paa Forudsætningen om, at Vanskeligheden er Subscribentens og ikke Udgiverens.)
- Frøken H. C. Bornemann, Frederiksberg.
- Etatsraad C. J. Thomsen, Ny Vestergade.
- † Magister G. V. Brorson, Sorø. (Afdøde forud for sin Subscriptions Fremkomst paa Rullen, idet Dødsfaldet indtraf mellem Underskrivningen af Subscriptions-Formularen og Trykningen af nærværende Liste. Bindene at leveres til hans Søster, der har ansøgt.)
- Justitsraad N. P. Lyngbye, Christianshavn.
- Madame J. Wegener, Pilestræde.
- Cand. theol. H. A. Schmidt, Bredgade. (Samme Familie som Nr. 1, ved en Sammentræf, Rullen ikke har paataget sig at bekræfte.)
- Lieutenant V. T. Bügel, Kastellet.
- Frue Pastorinde T. M. Lyngbye, Christianshavn. (See Nr. 22; Indførelserne modtagne indenfor samme Time og indførte i den Orden, hvori de bleve lagte paa Bordet.)
- Pastor F. C. Spang, Kongens Lyngby. (Med den marginale Note med Blyant: »anden Juledag; min Nytaarsgave til mig selv, idet min Hustru har forbudt Anskaffelsen af noget videre Bind af speculativ Theologie i dette Aar.« Udgiveren tillader sig den Iagttagelse, at Noten, omendskjønt rørende, er en privat Communication mellem Subscribenten og hans egen Samvittighed, og burde ikke have været indført paa Subscriptions-Formularen; han trykker den ikke desto mindre, idet Sagen ved nærværende Trykning ikke længere er privat.)
- Etatsraad J. F. Schouw, Botanisk Have.
- Frøken M. R. Aagaard, Amaliegade.
- † Major C. L. Holst, Regimentet uspecificeret. (Afdøde paa Marken ved intet Slag overhovedet, Aarsagen værende ikke militair men apoplectisk; Bindene at leveres til Regimentets Bibliothek i Overeensstemmelse med Afdødes staaende Instruction.)
- Cand. theol. P. M. Stilling, Adressen tilbageholdt.
- Pastor J. P. Mynster, ved Vor Frue Kirke. (Udgiveren bemærker med saadan Tilbageholdenhed, som Subscribentens Anseelse tillader, at Subscriptionen blev modtaget fra et yngre Medlem af Bispens Husstand og ikke til Udgiverens Kundskab er bleven bekræftet af Bispen selv; den er indført paa Rullen som den blev modtaget, i Tilliden til, at skulde nogen Feil være indtruffen, vil Bispen meddele Correctionen ved sin Beleilighed.)
- Etatsraad N. L. Westergaard, Charlottenlund.
- Frue Generalkonsulinde A. M. Wolff, Bredgade. (Ingen Slægt, Udgiveren er underrettet, med Nr. 2.)
- Procurator H. Buntzen, Sølvgade.
- Magister artium R. Nielsen, Adressen tilbageholdt. (Med den marginale Note: »Jeg subscriberer, med saadanne Forbehold, som mit eget Bidrag til Kongerigets speculative Litteratur i sin Tid maatte gjøre fornødne.« Udgiveren har bibeholdt Noten, der synes ham at foregribe med en Aabenhjertighed, han kun kan respektere, den Vanskelighed, hvori Subscribenten, havende udgivet sin egen Speculative Logik, vil finde sig, naar Bind II af nærværende Række fremkommer.)
- Cand. theol. T. J. Sophiensen, Christianshavn. (Samme Sophiensen, der i December i det forløbne Aar har udgivet et Bind Prædikener under Udgiverens Forlæggers Imprint; idet Subscriptionen blev indført, før Prædikenerne vare udarbeidede, optegner Udgiveren Sammentræffet uden Commentar.)
- Frue Boghandlerinde C. A. Reitzel, Vimmelskaftet. (Boghandlerens Hustru, der har subscriberet i sin egen Ret, Udgiveren er underrettet, paa det hun maa besidde et Exemplar uafhængigt af dem, hendes Mand detailsælger.)
- Pastor C. Hostrup, Silkeborg.
- † En anonym Subscribent, alene identificeret paa Formularen ved Initialet N. (Formularen blev fundet efter Subscribentens Død blandt hans Papirer; Boudfordreren har meddelt Døden og har ansøgt om Subscriptionens Fortsættelse i Henseende til den Afdødes Bibliothek, hvilket Udgiveren har bevilget paa den Forstaaelse, at Bindene, naar de omsider leveres, ville blive føiede til Bibliotheket og ikke til nogen særlig Efterkommers Hylde.)
De resterende tre hundrede og halvfjerds Indførelser udelades fra nærværende Rulle af Pladshensyn. De skulle trykkes i fuldt Omfang, forpligter Udgiveren sig til, ved Slutningen af Systemets sidste Bind, i Subscribent-Rullen for det Compleate logiske, æsthetiske, ethiske, dogmatiske og speculative System, som den oprindelige Subscriptions-Indbydelse har bekjendtgjort som en blivende Optegnelse.
Udgiveren optegner mod Slutningen af nærværende delvise Rulle, at af de fire hundrede og sytten Subscribenter ere fire i Aaret 1845 afdøde forud for deres Bind. Udgiveren extenderer sine Condolencer til Arvingerne; han optegner Subscriptionernes Fortsættelse i hvert Tilfælde ved Arvingernes Ansøgning; og han iagttager med hiin milde Pathos, som Sagen tillader, at Systemet nu i Henseende til disse fire Subscribenter er blevet et literært Foretagende med en Arvelodens videre Værdighed.
Partial roll of the four hundred and seventeen subscribers to the entire Logical System, with mark († ) against those who have, in the course of the year 1845, predeceased the volumes for which they entered themselves. The roll is printed in the order in which the subscriptions were received at Mr. Reitzel's establishment; the editor has selected, from the four hundred and seventeen, the first forty entries.
- Etatsraad J. P. Schmidt, Bredgade.
- Frue Conferentsraadinde C. Wolff, Amalienborg Plads. (Subscribed for her late husband, who had himself intended to subscribe at the New Year; her continuation of his intention is recorded with the editor's particular respect.)
- † Pastor H. C. Lund, ved Holmens Kirke. (Predeceased the Subscriber's Roll by two days, having signed the subscription on the morning of his last illness. The volumes will be delivered to his heir, the cand. theol. M. C. Lund, who has communicated his intention to retain the subscription.)
- Cand. theol. M. C. Lund, formerly of Sorø.
- Procurator L. Bang, Strandgade.
- Madame A. M. Falkenberg, Kjøbmagergade. (Notes appended to the subscription, in the subscriber's own hand: "for my son in Aarhus, when he has reached the appointed age." The editor will hold the volumes against the son's coming of age.)
- Lieutenant V. Krieger, Garnisonen.
- Apotheker O. Hjort, ved Nørreport.
- Justitsraad E. T. Hansen, Frederiksberg Allée. (With the marginal note: "I shall, in respect of the Aesthetic System, require a second subscription. The Logical alone is unequal to my requirements.")
- † Stiftsprovst P. H. Bjerring, Roskilde. (Predeceased the appearance of the present second edition; the heirs apply for Bind II in his stead, the subscription to be continued.)
- Magister artium F. Ploug, Kannikestræde.
- Boghandler J. Andersen, Vimmelskaftet. (Subscribed in the trade, with the customary discount; the volumes will be retailed by him, the editor having consented to the arrangement.)
- Frue Etatsraadinde M. Heiberg, Søkvæsthuset. (The editor records, with such modesty as the matter permits, that the subscription was received on the eleventh of January 1845, that is, after the first reviews had appeared, but before the second edition had been put in hand. The subscription does not, of course, indicate any approval of the volume's contents on the part of the subscriber, who is at liberty to dispose of the volumes as she sees fit.)
- Cand. juris O. F. Müller, Vesterport.
- † Frue Postmesterinde S. Rasmussen, Kjøge. (Predeceased by drowning, on a passage to Lolland; the volumes to be delivered to her surviving daughter, who has communicated her wish to inherit the subscription.)
- Pastor V. C. Brammer, ved Trinitatis.
- Kammerraad J. H. Steenstrup, Vimmelskaftet.
- Cand. phil. S. A. K., the address withheld at the subscriber's request. (The editor remarks, in respect of the request, only that he has not been able to determine, from the subscription form, whether the subscriber is a pseudonym, an actual person who wishes to remain unknown, or, by an arrangement not unknown in our literature, a person who is also other persons; the subscription has been entered as it was received, on the supposition that the difficulty is the subscriber's and not the editor's.)
- Frøken H. C. Bornemann, Frederiksberg.
- Etatsraad C. J. Thomsen, Ny Vestergade.
- † Magister G. V. Brorson, Sorø. (Predeceased the appearance of his subscription on the Roll, the death having occurred between the signing of the subscription form and the printing of the present list. The volumes to be delivered to his sister, who has applied.)
- Justitsraad N. P. Lyngbye, Christianshavn.
- Madame J. Wegener, Pilestræde.
- Cand. theol. H. A. Schmidt, Bredgade. (The same family as No. 1, by a coincidence which the Roll has not undertaken to confirm.)
- Lieutenant V. T. Bügel, Kastellet.
- Frue Pastorinde T. M. Lyngbye, Christianshavn. (See No. 22; the entries received within the same hour and entered in the order in which they were placed on the table.)
- Pastor F. C. Spang, Kongens Lyngby. (With the marginal note, in pencil: "the second day of Christmas; my New Year's gift to myself, my wife having forbidden the purchase of any further volume of speculative theology this year." The editor permits himself the observation that the note, while affecting, is a private communication between the subscriber and his own conscience, and should not have been entered upon the subscription form; he prints it nevertheless, the matter having become, by the present printing, no longer private.)
- Etatsraad J. F. Schouw, Botanisk Have.
- Frøken M. R. Aagaard, Amaliegade.
- † Major C. L. Holst, the regiment unspecified. (Predeceased on the field at no battle whatever, the cause being not military but apoplectic; the volumes to be delivered to the regiment's library, in accordance with the deceased's standing instruction.)
- Cand. theol. P. M. Stilling, the address withheld.
- Pastor J. P. Mynster, ved Vor Frue Kirke. (The editor notes, with such reserve as the eminence of the subscriber permits, that the subscription was received from a younger member of the Bishop's household and has not, to the editor's knowledge, been confirmed by the Bishop himself; it is entered upon the Roll as it was received, in the confidence that should any error have occurred the Bishop will communicate the correction at his convenience.)
- Etatsraad N. L. Westergaard, Charlottenlund.
- Frue Generalkonsulinde A. M. Wolff, Bredgade. (No relation, the editor is informed, to No. 2.)
- Procurator H. Buntzen, Sølvgade.
- Magister artium R. Nielsen, the address withheld. (With the marginal note: "I subscribe, with such reservations as my own contribution to the speculative literature of the kingdom may, in due course, render necessary." The editor has retained the note, which appears to him to anticipate, with a candour he can only respect, the difficulty in which the subscriber, having published his own Speculative Logik, will find himself when Bind II of the present series appears.)
- Cand. theol. T. J. Sophiensen, Christianshavn. (The same Sophiensen who has, in the December of the past year, brought out a volume of sermons under the editor's publisher's imprint; the subscription having been entered before the sermons were drafted, the editor records the coincidence without comment.)
- Frue Boghandlerinde C. A. Reitzel, Vimmelskaftet. (The bookseller's wife, who has subscribed in her own right, the editor is informed, in order that she may possess a copy independent of those which her husband retails.)
- Pastor C. Hostrup, Silkeborg.
- † An anonymous subscriber, identified upon the form only by the initial N. (The form was found, after the subscriber's decease, among his papers; the executor has communicated the death and has applied for the continuation of the subscription in respect of the deceased's library, which the editor has granted, on the understanding that the volumes, when at last delivered, will be added to the library and not to any particular successor's shelves.)
The remaining three hundred and seventy-seven entries are omitted from the present roll, for reasons of space. They will be printed in full, the editor undertakes, at the end of the final volume of the System, in the Subscriber's Roll of the Compleat Logical, Aesthetic, Ethical, Dogmatic, and Speculative System, which the original Subscription Notice has announced as a permanent record.
The editor records, against the closing of the present partial roll, that of the four hundred and seventeen subscribers, four have, in the year 1845, predeceased their volumes. The editor extends his condolences to the heirs; he records the continuance of the subscriptions, in each case, by the heirs' application; and he observes, with that gentle pathos which the matter permits, that the System has now, in respect of these four subscribers, become a literary undertaking with the additional dignity of an inheritance.
EFTERSKRIFT AF UDGIVEREN TIL ANDEN UDGAVE.
Jeg beder om den dannede Læsers Overbærenhed for een afsluttende Reflexion, hvilken nærværende Udgave, havende nu overskredet sin Forgjænger i Længde uden at overskride den i Indhold, maaskee kan undskyldes for at tilbyde.
Den anden Udgave af en Bog er i vor Litteratur et Phænomen af større Interesse end den første. Den første Udgave er Forfatterens Værk; den anden Udgave er Publikums Værk. Den første Udgave fremlægger for Publikum, hvad Forfatteren har formodet, Publikum at ville have; den anden Udgave fremlægger for Publikum, hvad Publikum, havende seet den første Udgave, har afgjort, at det dog ville have. Mellem den første Udgave og den anden afsiger Publikum Dom, og den anden Udgave er Dommen i trykt Form. Det er derfor den anden Udgave og ikke den første, der er Litteraturhistoriens rette Subject; thi den første Udgave er Tilbudet, og Tilbudet er privat for Tilbyderen, men den anden Udgave er Antagelsen, og Antagelsen er offentlig.
Hvad har da det dannede Publikum antaget i at have efterspurgt nærværende anden Udgave?
Det har antaget, fremfører Udgiveren, en Bog, hvis Indhold paa den første Udgaves egen Tilstaaelse endnu ikke var leveret; og det har i at have efterspurgt en anden Udgave demonstreret, at Leveringens Fravær ikke for det var en Mangel. Det dannede Publikum har derfor ved sin Antagelse ratificeret den Procedure, som den første Udgave indførte — nemlig Proceduren at udgive et System ved at udgive Systemets Bekjendtgjørelse, at subscribere paa et System ved at subscribere paa dets Bekjendtgjørelse, og at læse et System ved at læse Bekjendtgjørelsen og formode sig at have læst Systemet. Proceduren, der i den første Udgave blev tilbudt med nogen Betænkelighed, er nu ved den anden Udgaves Antagelse bleven bekræftet; og det dannede Publikum har meddelt Udgiveren, at dette er den Procedure, det ønsker fortsat.
Udgiveren modtager Meddelelsen. Han forpligter sig til at fortsætte Proceduren. Han forpligter sig til at udgive til Nytaar 1847 Bind II af det logiske System i samme Form, med samme Indhold og med samme Aabenhjertighed som Bind I. Han forpligter sig i sin Tid til at udgive Bind III, Bind IV og de videre Bind af det æsthetiske, ethiske, dogmatiske og speculative System, alle i samme Form, med samme Indhold og med samme Aabenhjertighed. Det dannede Publikum, havende ratificeret Proceduren i den anden Udgave af Bind I, vil, tiltro Udgiveren, ratificere Proceduren ogsaa i de videre Bind; og Systemet vil ved Udgiverens, Forlæggerens, Boghandlernes, Anmelderens og det dannede Publikums Samarbeide omsider blive bragt i denne sin rette Form til sin Fuldendelse.
Jeg trænger ikke paa Sagen. Jeg bemærker alene, at Bindet ved nærværende Udgave nu er gaaet i Publikums Forvaring, der har efterspurgt det; og at Udgiveren, havende blot været det Instrument, hvorved Bindet har naaet den Form, Publikum har godkjendt, intet videre har at føie til. Bomulds-Sløifen er bleven justeret. Imitations-Kid Permerne ere blevne pressede. Bindet hænger atter paa Juletræet — et mindre Træ maaskee, i en mindre Parlør, idet Prisen er nedsat saaledes, at Bindet bringes indenfor Rækkevidde for Husstande, den første Udgave ikke naaede; men ikke desto mindre et Juletræ. Imorgen ville Børnene i disse mindre Parlører tage det ned og aabne det; de ville finde, som Børnene i de større Parlører fandt for et Aar siden, Indledningens fire Paragrapher; de ville forgjeves see efter Resten; de ville lukke Bogen og gaae at lege. Jeg veed ikke, om den anden Udgave kunde have tjent sin Aarstid bedre, end den første tjente den første.
Nicolaus Notabene
Faaes hos Universitetsboghandler C. A. Reitzel. Pris 3 Mk., en ottende Deel af Bogladeprisen paa første Oplag. Subscriptioner paa Bind II–IV samt paa det fuldendte System modtages som hidtil.
I beg the cultivated reader's indulgence for one closing reflection, which the present edition, having now exceeded its predecessor in length without exceeding it in content, may perhaps be excused for offering.
The second edition of a book is, in our literature, a phenomenon of greater interest than the first. The first edition is the work of the author; the second edition is the work of the public. The first edition presents to the public what the author has supposed the public to want; the second edition presents to the public what the public, having seen the first edition, has determined that it wanted after all. Between the first edition and the second, the public passes judgment, and the second edition is the judgment in printed form. It is therefore the second edition, and not the first, which is the proper subject of literary history; for the first edition is the offer, and the offer is private to the offerer, but the second edition is the acceptance, and the acceptance is public.
What, then, has the cultivated public accepted, in calling for the present second edition?
It has accepted, the editor submits, a book whose content was, on the first edition's own admission, not yet delivered; and it has, in calling for a second edition, demonstrated that the absence of the delivery was not, for it, a defect. The cultivated public has therefore, by its acceptance, ratified the procedure which the first edition introduced — namely, the procedure of publishing a System by publishing the announcement of the System, of subscribing to a System by subscribing to its announcement, and of reading a System by reading the announcement and supposing oneself to have read the System. The procedure, which in the first edition was offered with some misgiving, has now, by the acceptance of the second edition, been confirmed; and the cultivated public has communicated to the editor that this is the procedure which it wishes to be continued.
The editor accepts the communication. He undertakes to continue the procedure. He undertakes to publish, at the New Year of 1847, Bind II of the Logical System, in the same form, with the same content, and with the same candour, as Bind I. He undertakes, in due course, to publish Bind III, Bind IV, and the further volumes of the Aesthetic, Ethical, Dogmatic, and Speculative System, all in the same form, with the same content, and with the same candour. The cultivated public, having ratified the procedure in the second edition of Bind I, will, the editor trusts, ratify the procedure also in the further volumes; and the System will, by the cooperation of the editor, the publisher, the booksellers, the reviewer, and the cultivated public, at last be brought, in this its proper form, to its completion.
I do not press the point. I observe only that the volume has now passed, by the present edition, into the keeping of the public, who have called for it; and that the editor, having been merely the instrument by which the volume has reached the form which the public has approved, has nothing further to add. The cotton ribbon has been adjusted. The imitation-kid boards have been pressed. The volume hangs once more upon the Christmas tree — a smaller tree, perhaps, in a smaller parlour, the price having been so reduced as to bring the volume within the means of households which the first edition did not reach; but a Christmas tree nonetheless. Tomorrow the children of these smaller parlours will take it down and open it; they will find, as the children of the larger parlours found a year ago, the four paragraphs of the introduction; they will look in vain for the rest; they will close the book and go to play. I do not know that the second edition could have served its season better than the first served the first.
Nicolaus Notabene
Faaes hos Universitetsboghandler C. A. Reitzel. Pris 3 Mk., en ottende Deel af Bogladeprisen paa første Oplag. Subscriptioner paa Bind II–IV samt paa det fuldendte System modtages som hidtil.
Editor’s Introduction
Editor's Introduction
Volume III
Det logiske System. Anden forøgede og forbedrede Udgave
The Logical System. Second, Enlarged and Improved Edition
by MADS FEDDER HENRIKSEN
I. The bibliographical anomaly
The Anden Udgave of Det logiske System presents the present editor with a textual situation of unusual interest. The volume is, by its title page, the second edition of Vol. I; it is, by its physical production, a separate publication from the same publisher (Reitzel) and printer (Bianco Luno) some thirteen months after the first; and it is, by its content, simultaneously identical to the first edition and substantially augmented with respect to it. The unusual quality of the bibliographical situation may be summarised as follows:
- The body of the volume — the Fortale, §§ 1–4, the Anhang, the Tillæg til Anhang, the Specimen of the Marginalia, the Subscription Notice, the Indledende liden Fortegnelse, and the Efterskrift — is, in the Anden Udgave, reset from the same standing type as the first edition (witness A of Vol. I). The type has been very lightly adjusted in three places (the corrections of demonstrable error noted in the Vol. III Fortale til Anden Udgave); otherwise it is identical.
- The Anden Udgave adds, before and after the body, substantial new matter: a new Fortale til Anden Udgave; four Aftrykte Anmeldelser from the periodical press of 1845; an Editor's Grateful Notice of considerable length; an Errata for the First Edition; an Anmærkning angaaende det udeblevne Bind II; a Fornyet Subscription Notice; a forty-name Subscriber's Roll Fragment; and an Efterskrift af Udgiveren til Anden Udgave.
- The new matter is, by length, somewhat greater than the body to which it has been added.
The Anden Udgave is therefore, in the strict bibliographical sense, neither a reprint of the first edition nor a new work; it is the first edition surrounded by an apparatus of greater bulk than itself. The classification of the volume in cataloguing practice has varied: Reitzel's own Catalogus Bibliothecae (1853) lists it as a second edition; the Royal Library's nineteenth-century catalogues list it as a separate work; Cappelørn (SKS Bibliography, 1996) restores the second-edition classification, on the grounds that the title page's claim takes precedence over the bibliographer's judgement. The present edition follows Cappelørn.
II. The "lost" first edition
A small but persistent strand of Notabene scholarship has held that the first edition of Det logiske System — that is, the volume reproduced in the present series as Vol. I — does not, properly speaking, exist; or, more precisely, that no copy of the first edition in its original form has been transmitted to the present day. The view originates with Lund (1987, pp. 124–31), who observed that all forty-seven traced copies of the first edition bear, on the verso of the title page, a small printed slip identifying the volume as a "second printing" — that is, as the second printing of the first edition, which was put in hand on 5 January 1845, twelve days after the original first printing of 26 December 1844. The original first printing, according to Lund, sold out within twelve days of publication and was replaced by the second printing, of which the surviving copies are exemplars; no copy of the original first printing has been traced.
Lund's argument was that, because the Anden Udgave of January 1846 was reset from the same standing type as the second printing of the first edition, the textual relation between the Anden Udgave and the original first printing of 26 December 1844 cannot be directly established. The Anden Udgave's claim to be an unaltered reprint is, on Lund's view, a claim that can be verified only with respect to the second printing — the original first printing being, in textual terms, lost.
Lund's argument has been contested. Holm (2011, pp. 67–73) shows, by comparison of the standing-type adjustments in the second printing with the press records in NKS 4° 2989-A, that the corrections between the first and second printings of the first edition were limited to typography (broken sorts, foul type, two cases of inverted letters) and did not affect the substantive readings; accordingly, the second printing may be treated as transmitting the substantive readings of the first. The present editor accepts Holm's argument. The Vol. I text of the present edition therefore stands on the textual authority of the second printing of the first edition, with no claim made for the recovery of original first-printing readings.
The bibliographical anomaly of Vol. III — that it is enlarged from a first edition that, in the strictest sense, does not survive — is recorded here without further consequence. The Anden Udgave is what it claims to be: the second edition of the work, reprinting the body of the first and adding the apparatus described above.
III. The four reprinted reviews
The principal contribution of the Anden Udgave to the textual history of Notabene's reception is the printing, on pp. 8–17 of the present edition, of four reviews of the first edition reprinted by permission of their respective periodicals. The four reviews — from Fædrelandet, Berlingske Tidende, Intelligensbladene, and Kjøbenhavnsposten — are the principal contemporary documents of the volume's reception.
The first three reviews have been verified by the present editor against the original numbers of the respective periodicals (held at the Kongelige Bibliotek). The texts as reprinted in the Anden Udgave agree with the originals in all substantive readings; one small variant of orthography in the Berlingske Tidende review (Anden Udgave reads "elegance"; Berlingske of 6 February 1845 reads "Elegance" with capital E) is reported in the apparatus.
The fourth review, attributed to "Carl P." in the Anden Udgave and to a notice in Kjøbenhavnsposten of 1 February 1845, presents a textual problem. The number of Kjøbenhavnsposten for 1 February 1845 contains no such review. The number for 27 January 1845 contains a hostile notice of Det logiske System by Carl Ploug (signed C. P.); the substance of Ploug's review agrees in many particulars with the Anden Udgave's "Carl P." reprint, but the wording differs in numerous passages, and three substantial paragraphs of the Anden Udgave's "Carl P." review have no counterpart in the Kjøbenhavnsposten original.
The most plausible explanation of this anomaly is that Notabene, in preparing the Anden Udgave's reprint of Ploug's review, has expanded the original — supplying paragraphs which, in his own view, ought to have appeared in the Kjøbenhavnsposten version but did not. Holm (2011, pp. 88–91) describes the procedure as "a small but deliberate exercise of editorial license, by which Notabene presses Ploug's polemic to its consistent conclusion in a manner Ploug himself had declined to do." The present editor accepts Holm's reading; the Anden Udgave's "Carl P." review is therefore designated, in the apparatus, as a redactional text rather than a reprinted one, and the original Ploug review of 27 January 1845 is printed in parallel as Appendix B for the reader's comparison.
The redactional procedure raises the question whether the other three reviews have undergone similar treatment. The collation reported above suggests they have not, save for the single orthographical variant noted. The present editor therefore treats the Fædrelandet, Berlingske, and Intelligensblade reviews as genuine reprints, and the Kjøbenhavnsposten review as a Notabene redaction. The matter is discussed at greater length in Holm (2011) and in the apparatus to pp. 14–17 of the present edition.
IV. Reception 1846–2024
The Anden Udgave sold out within eight months of its publication, in a manner that suggests the Folkeudgave pricing strategy was, in commercial terms, successful. The 1888 Schubothe abridgement of Vol. I (described in the introduction to that volume) drew on the Anden Udgave's body, not on the first edition's, since the Anden Udgave was the more readily available copy; the omission of the Anhang by Dahl in 1888 therefore traces, through the Anden Udgave, back to its first-edition source.
Twentieth-century reception of the Anden Udgave has concentrated on the Editor's Grateful Notice (pp. 18–21 of the present edition) as the document in which Notabene's redactional procedure is most visible. The notice's structure — the address to the Fædrelandet reviewer, the half-apology to Berlingske Tidende, the more elaborate reply to Intelligensbladene, the open polemic with Kjøbenhavnsposten — has been read by Lindhardt (1969) as a small dramatic composition in four movements, by Holm (2011) as a coda to the speculative satire of Vol. I, and by Pattison (2014) as the place at which Notabene's posture as "publisher only" begins to dissolve into the open authorial voice of Vol. VII. The present editor takes no settled position; the matter is treated in the apparatus to pp. 18–21.
V. Editorial principles for the present edition
The text is based on the first printing of the Anden Udgave (Kgl. Bibl., 17,-119 8°), collated against the second and third printings of 1846 and 1847; substantive variants are reported in the apparatus. The four reviews are printed as in the Anden Udgave; the original Kjøbenhavnsposten review of 27 January 1845 is given in parallel in Appendix B.
The reader is reminded that the present Vol. III contains only the new matter of the Anden Udgave; the body (§§ 1–4, Anhang, Tillæg, Specimen, etc.) is found in Vol. I. The Anden Udgave's own Indhold (pp. 17–18 of the present edition) lists the body matter as "reprinted from the plates of the first," with the explicit advice to the reader that the body is to be consulted in the first edition. The present editor has retained this division: the reader of Vol. III who has not yet consulted Vol. I is encouraged to do so before approaching the Anden Udgave's new apparatus.
The Danish facing-page text retains the orthography and punctuation of the Anden Udgave. The English facing-page text is a new translation. The 1888 Dahl edition does not bear on Vol. III, which contains no Dahl-suppressed matter.
— M.F.H. Forskningscentret, December 2024
Textual Apparatus
Textual Apparatus
Volume III — Det logiske System, Anden Udgave
Selected Notes
Model spread; the full apparatus is in the electronic edition at `forskningscentret.ku.dk/notabene/iii`.
Conventions
Sigla:
— A. Det logiske System. En Nytaarsgave. Første Bind, indeholdende §§ 1-4 samt Anhang. Anden forøgede og forbedrede Udgave. Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzel, January 1846. First printing of the Anden Udgave. Edition of 1,000 copies. Textual basis: Kgl. Bibl., 17,-119 8°.
— A². Second printing of the Anden Udgave, May 1846. Standing-type reprint of A with two minor typographical corrections; no substantive variants. 750 copies.
— A³. Third printing of the Anden Udgave, January 1847. Standing-type reprint of A² without further substantive correction. 500 copies. The third printing was the final printing of any Notabene volume in his lifetime.
— A-I. Det logiske System. Reitzel, 1844-45 first edition; treated as Vol. I of the present edition. A-I is referenced in the Anden Udgave's apparatus as the principal source-text whose body it reprints from standing type. Its apparatus is the apparatus to Vol. I.
— R. The Aftrykte Anmeldelser — four reviews reprinted in the Anden Udgave — collated against their originals in the respective periodicals:
- R-F. Fædrelandet, no. 19, 23 January 1845.
- R-B. Berlingske Tidende, no. 31, 6 February 1845.
- R-I. Intelligensbladene, no. 53, 14 February 1845.
- R-K. Kjøbenhavnsposten, no. 27 (Notabene's reference) — but cf. § III below on the dispute concerning Kjøbenhavnsposten's actual notice (no. 27 of 1 February 1845 contains no such review; the relevant notice in the original Kjøbenhavnsposten is no. 18 of 22 January 1845, signed C. P. (Carl Ploug)).
— L. The Logical System. Second, Enlarged and Improved Edition. Translated by David F. Swenson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. Swenson's translation, which appeared together with his translation of the first edition (Vol. I, q.v.), worked from the Anden Udgave as the standard form in which the volume was then accessible. L is reported in the apparatus where its readings depart from A.
— M. Notabene-arkivet, Kgl. Bibl., NKS 4° 3204, fascicle 11 ("Anden Udgave-Stykkerne"). Six leaves in Notabene's hand, comprising: (1) the Fortale til Anden Udgave in fair copy; (2) the Editor's Grateful Notice in two successive drafts; (3) the Anmærkning angaaende det udeblevne Bind II in fair copy; (4) the Fornyet Subscription Notice in fair copy. M does not preserve a draft of the Aftrykte Anmeldelser (which Notabene assembled from periodical sources) or of the Errata for the First Edition.
— Cross-reference conventions follow those established in the apparatus to Vol. VII.
I. The bibliographical anomaly: a second edition that is its own apparatus
General note. The Anden Udgave presents the textual situation set out in the General Editor's Introduction to the present volume: the body of the Anden Udgave (i.e., the Fortale of Vol. I, the §§ 1–4, the Anhang, the Tillæg, the Specimen of the Marginalia, the Subscription Notice, the Indledende liden Fortegnelse, and the Efterskrift of Vol. I) is, in the Anden Udgave, reset from the same standing type as Vol. I, with only the three minor typographical adjustments reported in Vol. I's apparatus. The Anden Udgave adds, surrounding the reprinted body, new material comprising the Fortale til Anden Udgave, the Aftrykte Anmeldelser with their Editor's Grateful Notice, the Errata for the First Edition, the Anmærkning angaaende det udeblevne Bind II, the Fornyet Subscription Notice, the Subscriber's Roll fragment, and the Efterskrift til Anden Udgave. The added matter is, by length, somewhat greater than the body to which it has been added.
The apparatus situation of the Anden Udgave is accordingly bifurcated: the body's apparatus is the apparatus to Vol. I, where the textual situation of the first edition is reported; the Anden Udgave's own apparatus addresses only the new matter and the bibliographical-historical questions of the Anden Udgave's status as a second edition. The present model spread addresses the new matter only.
The most distinctive feature of the Anden Udgave's textual situation is the discovery, in collation, that the Kjøbenhavnsposten review reprinted in Section IV is not in fact a faithful reprint of the original Kjøbenhavnsposten notice. The collation is reported below at § III.
II. The "lost first edition" question
General note. A persistent strand of Notabene scholarship has held that the first edition of Det logiske System — Vol. I in the present edition — does not, properly speaking, exist in any surviving copy. The view was advanced by Lund (1987, pp. 124–31) and is summarised in the General Editor's Introduction to the present volume. The 2019 discovery of the M materials and Holm's subsequent analysis (2011, pp. 67–73; expanded in Holm 2019, pp. 24–27) have substantially weakened Lund's position, but the position has not been entirely abandoned and continues to be defended (most recently by Bjørn 2018, pp. 89–94, on alternative grounds).
The present apparatus reports the principal evidence on both sides without proposing a settlement. The textual implications for the Anden Udgave are limited: even on Lund's view, the Anden Udgave's body reprints from the second printing of the first edition (the printing of January 1845), which is the standing-type form transmitting the substantive readings of the first edition. The Anden Udgave is, on either Lund's or Holm's reading, a textual reprint of the first-edition body whose ultimate underlying lost-or-not-lost original-first-printing has no further bearing on the present text.
The reader who wishes to pursue the question is referred to Lund (1987), Holm (2011 ch. 2 and 2019), and Bjørn (2018).
III. The redactional Kjøbenhavnsposten review
General note. The Kjøbenhavnsposten review reprinted as the fourth of the Aftrykte Anmeldelser in the Anden Udgave (printed on pp. 14–17 of the present edition) presents the principal textual-historical question of Vol. III's new matter. Collation of the Anden Udgave's reprint against the original Kjøbenhavnsposten notice has yielded a substantial divergence which the present apparatus reports in detail.
The original notice in Kjøbenhavnsposten, no. 18, 22 January 1845, signed C. P. (Carl Ploug, 1813–1894), is approximately 380 words long. The Anden Udgave's "reprint," in Section IV, is approximately 720 words long — nearly twice the length of the original. The collation indicates that approximately 350 words of the Anden Udgave's "reprint" have no counterpart in the original Kjøbenhavnsposten notice.
The structure of the divergence is the following: the Anden Udgave's opening (corresponding to lines 1–22 of the present edition's reprint) is in close agreement with the original. The middle section (lines 23–46) introduces approximately 280 words of additional content that develops Ploug's polemic in directions Ploug himself did not take in the original — most notably, the section's accusation that "Mr. Notabene has not perceived that, in mocking the procedure, he has himself adopted the procedure," which has no counterpart in the Kjøbenhavnsposten original. The closing (lines 47–60) returns to faithful reprint of the original, though with two further substantive insertions of approximately 30 words each.
The most plausible explanation is the one offered in the General Editor's Introduction: Notabene, in preparing the Anden Udgave's reprint, expanded the Ploug original — supplying paragraphs which, in his own view, ought to have appeared in the Kjøbenhavnsposten version but did not. The procedure has been described by Holm (2011, pp. 88–91) as "a small but deliberate exercise of editorial license, by which Notabene presses Ploug's polemic to its consistent conclusion in a manner Ploug himself had declined to do."
The present apparatus designates the Anden Udgave's "reprint" of Ploug as a redactional text. Appendix B of the present edition prints the original Kjøbenhavnsposten notice in parallel, so the reader may compare. The redactional procedure raises the question whether the other three Aftrykte Anmeldelser have undergone similar treatment; the collations reported in §§ III.1–3 below indicate they have not, save for the orthographical variant at Berlingske line 4.
*§ III.1. The Fædrelandet reprint (R-F). Collation with the original (Fædrelandet, no. 19, 23 January 1845) yields no substantive variants. The reprint is faithful. — On the identity of the unsigned Fædrelandet* reviewer, see Holm 2011, p. 91 n. 4; the principal candidates (Carl Brosbøll, Jakob Davidsen, and an unidentified third) have been variously argued, but no candidate has been definitively established.
*§ III.2. The Berlingske Tidende reprint (R-B). Collation yields one orthographical variant: Anden Udgave reads "elegance" (lower-case e); the Berlingske Tidende original of 6 February 1845 reads "Elegance*" (capital E). The substitution is the only variant identified; the reprint is otherwise faithful.
*§ III.3. The Intelligensbladene reprint (R-I). Collation yields no substantive variants. The reprint is faithful. — The Intelligensbladene notice was, on internal evidence, written by an editorial committee rather than by a single reviewer; the standard scholarly view (Lindhardt 1969, p. 103) is that Heiberg himself contributed to the notice but did not write it in its entirety. The hypothesis is consistent with the Heiberg-arkivet correspondence (Add. 1840, fasc. III, fol. 36r), where Heiberg's letter to his deputy editor of 12 February 1845 indicates that he had "supplied the corrections I think necessary to the Notabene notice; the writing of the notice was mostly Hr. Schmidt's*."
*§ III.4. The Kjøbenhavnsposten reprint (R-K). Collation yields the substantial divergence reported above. Approximately 350 words of the Anden Udgave's "reprint" have no counterpart in the Kjøbenhavnsposten* original.
IV. The Editor's Grateful Notice
General note. The Editor's Grateful Notice on the foregoing reviews (pp. 18–21 of the present edition) is the longest piece of the Anden Udgave's new matter and the place at which Notabene's rhetorical strategy in the Anden Udgave is most clearly visible. The Notice responds, in four distinct sections, to the four reprinted reviews; each section adopts a different rhetorical posture toward its addressee.
The textual situation of the Notice is straightforward: A, A², A³ agree; M (fols. 2r–4v) preserves two successive drafts, with the substantive variants reported below.
*Notice § 1 (response to the Fædrelandet review). the chain is short and the operation transparent ] A: Kjeden er kort og Operationen gjennemsigtig. M draft 2 (fol. 3r, line 8): Kjeden er kort, ja gjennemsigtig. — The substitution between M and A removes the ja* (yes/indeed); the A reading is more flatly declarative. The substitution is consistent with Notabene's broader practice in M of removing intensifiers between draft and print.
*Notice § 4 (response to the Kjøbenhavnsposten review). He has accused the editor, in substance, of mocking the procedure of unfulfilled announcement by adopting the procedure of unfulfilled announcement. The accusation is, the editor confesses, well placed. ] A: Han har, i Substantsen, anklaget Redacteuren for, ved at adoptere det opfyldte Anmeldelses-Procedure, at have spottet det opfyldte Anmeldelses-Procedure. Anklagen er, Redacteuren tilstaaer, vel placeret. — The Editor's Grateful Notice's acknowledgement of the Ploug accusation as "well placed" is one of the most striking moments in the Anden Udgave: Notabene's editor-figure confesses precisely what the Ploug review (in its Anden Udgave-augmented form) had accused. The confession is, however, embedded in a sentence that the original (unaugmented) Ploug review did not contain — that is, the redactional Anden Udgave-Ploug accuses Notabene of the procedure, Notabene's Editor's Grateful Notice* confesses to it, and the entire exchange is of Notabene's own composition. The redactional-confessional structure is, on Pattison's reading (2014, p. 156), "the most precise structural emblem of Notabene's editorial self-relation in the entire phantom corpus."
V. The Errata for the First Edition
General note. The Errata for the First Edition (pp. 22–24 of the present edition) presents a single correction: the small printed gold star at p. 47 of the first edition was supplied by the engraver with six points; Notabene had specified five; the present edition silently makes the correction. The single-correction Errata is followed by a 280-word essay on the impossibility of erring in a book whose content was unspecified.
The textual situation is straightforward: A, A², A³ agree; M (fol. 1v) preserves the Errata in fair copy in close agreement with A. No translator's witness (L) corresponds to the section.
Errata § 1. Page 47, lower right-hand corner. For the small printed gold star, read a small printed gold star with five points ] A: Side 47, nederste høire Hjørne. For den lille trykte gylden Stjerne, læs en lille trykt gylden Stjerne med fem Spidser. — The collation of surviving Vol. I copies indicates that all extant copies of A-I (Vol. I's first-edition first and second printings) contain the six-point star; the five-point star appears only in the Anden Udgave's reprint (where, per the Anden Udgave's own physical description, it is rendered in black rather than gold). The Errata's correction is therefore, on inspection, false — the five-point star has never appeared in any printed witness; the Errata corrects to a state the printed text has not occupied. The error of the Errata has not been previously noted in the scholarly literature; the present apparatus is the first to report it.
The simplest explanation is that the Errata is itself a piece of the Anden Udgave's fictional apparatus — a "correction" that participates in the same recursive editorial play as the rest of the volume — and not an actual textual correction. The reading is consistent with the Errata's accompanying essay (pp. 23–24), which argues that the only error correctable in a book of unspecified content is "an ornament in one corner being of the wrong shape" — the Errata's correction-to-an-imagined-corrected-state is, on this reading, Notabene's deliberate joke. The present editor accepts this reading.
VI. The Subscriber's Roll Fragment
General note. The Anden Udgave's Subscriber's Roll Fragment (pp. 35–41 of the present edition) prints forty of the 417 entries to the Subscriber's Roll; the entries are reported as the first forty subscribers, in the order their subscriptions were received. The fragment is in close agreement with the corresponding portion of the complete Roll reproduced in Vol. I's Appendix A from M; the present apparatus reports only the variants between the Anden Udgave's fragment and Vol. I's complete Roll.
The Anden Udgave's fragment introduces, beyond the names and the standard form of the entries, brief annotations specific to certain subscribers (e.g., Pastor Lund's death, the Spang note about the wife's prohibition on speculative purchases, the Mynster qualification, the Nielsen marginal reservation). These annotations are not present in M's complete Roll; they are an Anden Udgave innovation, supplied by Notabene for the publication of 1846.
The principal question concerning the annotations is which are factual (i.e., recording real subscribers' real biographical particulars) and which are fictional (i.e., elaborating Notabene's editorial play). The matter is treated in the apparatus to Vol. I (q.v.), which marks the four disputed entries (nos. 13, 27, 32, 36) with an obelus.
Roll annotation, entry 27 (Pastor Spang). the second day of Christmas; my New Year's gift to myself, my wife having forbidden the purchase of any further volume of speculative theology this year — see the apparatus to Vol. I, Roll entry 27, for the principal scholarly discussion of this annotation. The annotation's biographical-fictional status is unresolved.
The complete apparatus to Vol. III addresses all sections of the new matter in comparable detail. The reader is reminded that the present Vol. III contains only the new matter; the body (§§ 1–4, Anhang, Tillæg, Specimen, etc.) is found in Vol. I, where the body's apparatus is also located. The full electronic apparatus supplies the secondary apparatus of typographical and minor variants which the printed edition does not report.
— M. F. H. Forskningscentret, December 2024