Hovstad. I am of humble origin, as you know; and that has given me opportunities of knowing what is the most crying need in the humbler ranks of life. It is that they should be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctor. That is what will develop their faculties and intelligence and self respect.

Henrik Ibesn, who was born in Norway in 1828, has long held the unofficial title of "father of the modern drama." It would seem that Ibsen was fated to be misunderstood in two centuries; he was too radical for the nineteenth and too conservative for the twentieth.