There are close links between idealism and the phenomenon known in Germany as the Frühromantik. The latter term is primarily used to describe the writings of a circle of writers — including the Schlegel brothers, Dorothea and Caroline Schlegel, Friedrich Novalis, Johann Tieck and Friedrich Schleiermacher — associated with the Athenaeum journal in Jena, from 1798 to 1800. Both Fichte and Schelling had close contacts with the group, and they also had considerable influence on its thought. In the following chapter I will try to close in on Friedrich Schlegel's theory of the fragment dating from this period, primarily by looking at its relationship to the absolute system-organism of idealism. The fragment will not prove to be a simple denial of the system, but rather a more inclusive operating of the manifold of possibilities evinced by the preconditions of the system. Simplifying somewhat, one might say that the fragment embodies the system's dispersal from within.