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almost a quarter of a century later, anyone that is so inclined can see that it was this bloodless revolution within the intellectual sphere which, after it had caused the collapse of the crumbling temples, prepared a new foundation for the new Sweden, which ever since that time has been erecting new structures for a people whose self-respect is on the point of being aroused.

Without the Strindberg revolution, our nation would still be that invertebrate, lethargic weakling who considered that he was doing enough for the age by dreaming about the boom of the leather-cannon of the seventeenth century and who admired himself while lying on his back declaiming Tegner's Charles XII.