Indeed I concerned myself very little about Ibsen until, later on, William Archer translated Peer Gynt to me _viva voce_, when the magic of the great poet opened my eyes in a flash to the importance of the social philosopher.
I seriously suggest that The Irrational Knot may be regarded as an early attempt on the part of the Life Force to write A Doll's House in English by the instrumentality of a very immature writer aged 24.

And though I say it that should not, the choice was not such a bad shot for a stupid instinctive force that has to work and become conscious of itself by means of human brains.

If we could only realize that though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads, the peoples of the earth would learn some pity for their gods; and we should have a religion that would not be contradicted at every turn by the thing that is giving the lie to the thing that ought to be.
WELWYN, _Sunday, June_ 25, 1905..