Seine neue Erkenntnis und Abrechnung mit seiner Vergangenheit hat er dann in einer Artikelserie „Kritik der literarischen Bewegung der Achtziger in Holland“ gegeben. ###>In a series of articles entitled Critique of the Literary Movement of the 1880s in Holland (1899-1900) he drew up a balance sheet of his past in order to set forth the self-understanding which he had acquired during that period.