<P> One thing James did have in common with Kierkegaard was respect for the single individual, and their respective comments may be compared in direct sequence as follows: "A crowd is indeed made up of single individuals; it must therefore be in everyone's power to become what he is, a single individual; no one is prevented from being a single individual, no one, unless he prevents himself by becoming many . To become a crowd, to gather a crowd around oneself, is on the contrary to distinguish life from life; even the most well - meaning one who talks about that, can easily offend a single individual ." In his book A Pluralistic Universe, James stated that, "Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general label . As these heads usually suggest prejudicial associations to some hearer or other, the life of philosophy largely consists of resentments at the classing, and complaints of being misunderstood . But there are signs of clearing up for which both Oxford and Harvard are partly to be thanked ." </P> <P> The Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics had an article about Kierkegaard in 1908 . The article began: </P> <P> "The life of Søren Kierkegaard has but few points of contact with the external world; but there were, in particular, three occurrences--a broken engagement, an attack by a comic paper, and the use of a word by H.L. Martensen--which must be referred to as having wrought with extraordinary effect upon his peculiarly sensitive and high - strung nature . The intensity of his inner life, again--which finds expression in his published works, and even more directly in his notebooks and diaries (also published)--cannot be properly understood without some reference to his father ." </P> <P> Friedrich von Hügel wrote about Kierkegaard in his 1913 book, Eternal life: a study of its implications and applications, where he said: "Kierkegaard, the deep, melancholy, strenuous, utterly uncompromising Danish religionist, is a spiritual brother of the great Frenchman, Blaise Pascal, and of the striking English Tractarian, Hurrell Froude, who died young and still full of crudity, yet left an abiding mark upon all who knew him well ." </P>

Who is considered to be the first literary philosopher