He fought every such attempt with the utmost determination, and by the help of God and the more intelligent of his fellow-countrymen, crushed every such attack more completely than the public sometimes knew, for he resolutely kept out of any political or social agitation and went calmly on his way, even when his quietude led the enemy to imagine that he was yielding.

In later years, when all the pressmen of a city came together to meet him, the Social Democratic paper representative would, of course, come with the rest.

On the occasion of such an interview once in Denmark, he writes:-- "The Social Democrat usually contents himself by compassionating the inadequacy of my efforts for dealing with the miseries which they contemplate, with the remark that I don't go deep enough, that mine is a superficial operation, whereas they destroy poverty by dragging it up by the roots! "My notion is that the principles upon which my efforts are founded carry me to the lowest roots of all, namely, the selfishness of human nature.

Their notion is that capital is the root of the misery.

Destroy the capital, or rather I expect they mean divide it up, or let everybody have the benefits that flow out of its possession.