Hegard, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Copenhagen, and for years the leading atheist of his land, says in the introduction to the revised edition of his works:
"The experience of life, its sufferings and griefs, have shaken my soul. They have broken the foundation upon which I formerly thought I. could build. Full of faith in the sufficiency of science, I thought to have found in it a sure refuge from all the contingencies of life. This illusion has vanished. When the tempest came which plunged me in sorrow, the moorings, the cable of science, broke like a thread. Then I seized upon that help which many before me have laid hold of. I sought and found peace in Christ. Since then I have certainly not abandoned science, but I have assigned it a secondary place in my life.”