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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820-1876 feiiilm mmlitlH i!f|!(H.]"fnti'fl iHiUHJttiinii'iiin JOURNALS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON 1820-1876 VOL. IX Mrs. Lidian Jackson Emersorf JOURNALS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON WITH ANNOTATIONS EDITED BY EDWARD WALDO EMERSON AND WALDO EMERSON FORBES 1856-1863 BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Cde Ititaer^ibe ^te0 ^Eamdtibge 1913 7S /f3/ n "^ COPYRIGHT, I913, BY EDWARD WALDO BMERSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Ptttlished November IQ13 " CONTENTS JOURNAL XLVII 1856 (From Journals RO, DO, SO, and ZO) Winter exposures in the West. Dixon. Visionary settlers. Idealist. Beloit. Lyceum audiences. Early Illinois; its hard times. English law precedents. The sap of In- tellect. The Banker. Pure research. Hospitality. Lake Michigan. Sermon on trifles. Railroad property. Epi- grams. Choate on presidential virus. Living truth. Quakers. Thoreau's combativeness. Cold science. Instant duty. False poets. Copernicus versus Calvin. Herschel; chemistry versus famine. Merchant and hermit. Father Taylor's trust. Napoleon applied. Ar- tists. Man completes Nature. Egyptiacus. English, American and German culture. IndiiFerence of sub- ject. What is "practical"? Classic and romantic. Aunt Mary. False classicism. " The Two Rivers." Civilization's mistakes. Flower-teachers. Monochords. Noble astronomers. States of mind. Scholar ill placed; Andrews Norton. The good Germans. The magic song; Wafthrudnir; time. Whipple on Whitman. Boston audience. The Intermediate. Elizabeth Hoar. Ellery Channing's strange quality. Selfish science. Alcott's unshaken faith and sight 3-4° 1 vi CONTENTS Each man fits. The great poetry. Temperance. Unex- pected genius in conversation. Alcott's insight; few see it. Carnot, Lafayette, Arago. Maupertuis. Education, symbols, variedlgifts. The affirmative. Blundering civilization. Childish reminiscence ofWarofl8i2. Walk with Thoreau, birds and flowers. Pantheism. Outrage on Sumner. With Thoreau on the river. Freedom's champions. Instinctive martyrs. Kansas; Emigrant Aid Society. Cant. Obstructive government. The poor outspend the rich. Wordsworth's praise. Quotations from Lanfrey. Professor Poikilos. Chan- ning's verses. Pigeon Cove; the poem "Seashore." Quotations from Upanishad. Poem " Brahma." Elliot Cabot on Beauty. Mather's counsel on extem- pore speaking. Death. The landscape' mocks. August walk with Thoreau. Spiritism. Kansas relief meet- ings. November walk with Channing. French influ- ence on Oxford. Feats. Nobility and elegance. Eng- lish Traits published. Talk with Albert H. Tracy. John Randolph on Roger Sherman. Resurrection Day dinner party. Criticism of Calderon. Napoleon and Beethoven. Reading 4' -7 JOURNAL XLVIII 1857 (From Journals SO and VO) The lecture tour. Illinois towns. Birth of Chicago, Og- den; amazing sales. Pindar. Agassiz and turtles. John Brown in Concord. Insolvent men; conscience in s CONTENTS vii spots. Democrats accept Whig captains. Southern fighting quality. Rhetoric omits negatives. Shameless- ness. Lord Normanby. Guizot. Ascension. Stoic. Jamblichus. Art and facts. Frye; French compli- " ment. Untutored America. Delia Bacon. Shakspeare | and the Pilgrims. Title - deeds. May walk with Thoreau. Trees give crowns. The drunkard's secret. Peter Kaufinann, his letter. Family walk to the Cliff. Fear of thunder as a test ; Thoreau. Celebrating Agassiz's fiftieth birthday; Saturday Club. Thoreau on trees. Physiologic du Goat. The timeless woods. , June walk with Thoreau. Scholar in Place and Time. Creation going on. Verses for Fourth of July. Mov- ing to Sleepy Hollow. Measure of men and children. Visit to Josiah Quincy, Jr.; old President Quincy. EUery Charming on frogs and farmers; a July day with him. Faraday on Force. The sane men; their thoughts. Taming thoughts. Beaumarchais's verse on Character. Arago on Force. August afternoon with Channing. The stars' inconvenient hours. Thoreau' Indian guide. Truth. September walk with Thoreau. Nature's illusions 73-113 How we failed to be Catholics. Nature mocks language. Great by one gift. Maximum and minimum. Plato's prescription. Surfaces; good writing. Determination. Abolitionists' faults. The abstruse and the clear. The Atlantic Monthly; contributors and editor; Alcott's views. Debt to dreams. The shooting - complexion. Thieves in politics, and in business. Moore's fine lines. Cuvier, Bichat, Schwann. Success well vyon. Men of instinct versus professors. Organic position. The viii CONTENTS coming metaphysician. Memory and Imagination. Honour. Naturel, native force, poisoned by low wilL Verses fresh from Walden woods. Nature and man belong together. Fontenelle, Fauriel, Michelet. Pace. —i—' Shakspeare and Bacon. Compensation. Ideality; Flow- ing. High criticism. Few stars, few thoughts ; bal- lads and epics. The Greeks, mythology; Webster. Sentiment and thought. Hard times; banks suspend; paper money ; panics are tests. Imagination gives value to the day. Reading 1 14-140 JOURNAL XLIX 1858 (From Journals VO and DO) Course of lectures in Boston. Get the interesting facts. Meeting Thoreau in the woods. What is practical? The turbine. Hafiz's barbarous splendor. Cowardly politics of Massachusetts. French metaphysicians. In- ferences from great minds. The part of a gentleman to-day. Our nation aged at eighty-two. Agassiz and Hunter on earning money. Rarey's horse-training. Real human manhood against artificial. The rising generation. Morals; right or precedent? Wordsworth, Milton, Tennyson. Rainbow. Eloquence of silence. Talk with Thoreau; the Maine hermit; patience re- veals bird or beast. Rowse on portraits. Occupations. Birds and flowers. Babcock the carpenter's opinions. Aspects of man. Fate's teaching. English politics. The Adjrondac Club ; camp on Follansbee's Pond. CONTENTS ix The osprey's nest ; Lowell's venture. Boat trip with Agassiz. Cattle-show address. Wealth considered. The pervasive aim. Fate. Mr. Emerson's Philadelphia lecturing. Reading 143-164 JOURNAL L 1859 (From Journals AC and CL) The Burns Centenary. Powers of the mind. Ruy Diaz, the Cid. Nature's vanity a mask, we are alike. Michel Angelo on Time. The novel "Counterparts." Minds differ in degree, pace, association. The gov- ernment permits outrage if due form observed. Dead usage and laws. Despair is no muse. Greatness the mover. The revolution when thinkers meet. Analogy the key of the universe. Be yourself, and listen. Course of lectures in Boston. Love; spring. The wis- dom of fools. Ripple Pond. Channing's poetry, " Near Home." Jefferson on the federal judiciary. Emerson only a writer in absence of natural writers. -T Who wrote Shakspeare? English confusion of ideas; orderly Germans ; poetry is part of Nature. The constant magnet. Gazetted words. Pace makes the difference in men. Secondary and primary men. Every man has all, if he knew how to get at it. Im- patient Americans. Channing on golden-rod as an investment. Latent heat and intellect.- Real people • and drones. Whipple. Votaries of Shakspeare and ^ Plato. Culture a pagan. We must be moral. Events 1 X CONTENTS are as the person. No disciples: ^ish to bring men not to a master, but to themselves. Henry James. The spiritual defined; man and his spirit. Personality. Power, outward and inward, and sensibility. Trust utterly to your presentiments. Spiritism. The poem "Boston." Prescott, and Carlyle; Frederick the Great. The Age the great critic. The strong, origi- nal men, Novalis, Samuel Hopkins, George Fox, Herbert; their repeaters. Materialized sentiment. Pov- erty's Praise subject for poem. Reality. Superiority of others. French and English. The rector's voice. Catching rides. Born Cassandras. Whitewashing; criticism. Printing frightened the fairies. Benjonson X^ on newspapers ; inheritance. America's want of character. Some fanaticism needed. The May war- blers. Carlyle' s Frederick the Great again; surface in writing. Raffaele's letter on his Galatea. The Un- derstanding. Dante's eyes. Inspiration is in the new- ness. Tennyson's Idylls of the King justifies England. Rhyme in the theme. Simonides's verse on his mem- ory. Persons who utter oracles. Nature's making of woman. Free and deathless Worship. The South de- mands disunion 1 66-2 1 Magic in all things. Bettine Brentano; Goethe on Bee- thoven. Choate and Webster's credit for classical learning. Fame. No word of poem must drag. Eng- land's statute on range for the long-bow. Use of Uni- versity; Harvard's timidity. Spring. Will and Fate. New birth. Will a perception of the Eternal Neces- sity. The Parrot; Dr. Bigelow's MinO bird. Trip to Wachusett; disabling sprain. 'Q.a.vjapd, the Flow- CONTENTS xi ing. Charm of mediasval buildings. Beatitude of in- tellect; hints of power. The inconvertible. The lost Pleiad. Aboriginal Intellect. Doctors disagree; Nature catches the sprain. August's fruit. Wonder of know- ledge. Beware collectors. Haydon's autobiography. Speech at the dinner to Dr. Holmes. The unskilled rider. Mr. Crump; avalanche of misfortunes. Dr. Johnson's sayings. Phillips's letter to Judge Shaw and President Walker ; wine. Preaching to Theodore Parker's society. Aunt Mary like Dr. Johnson. Rest- less travel. Imagination. The Chelmsford Memorial; reminiscences, the brave ancestors. Channing as a critic. G. W. Tyler. Common people. Self-healing. John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry. Freedom's necessary champions. On a friend turned Catholic. Heroism for to-day. Respect won by John Brown's sincerity and courage from his enemies ; Thoreau's speech in Concord. Ideas unite persons. Pierre d'Auvergne's songs. Wendell Phillips. Intellect traces the Law, must flow into action. Tobacco's
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