The crimson morning flames into

The fopperies of the town.

"The World-Soui.'

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Page 298, note 2. In the book in which Mr. Emersor wrote verses after 1850, this passage appears in poetic form:

October woods wherein

The boy's dream comes to pass,

And Nature squanders on the boy her pomp,
And crown's him with a more than royal crown,
And unimagined splendor waits his steps.

The gazing urchin walks through tents of gold,
Through crimson chambers, porphyry and pearl,
Pavilion on pavilion garlanded,

Incensed, and starred with light and airs and shapes

Beyond the best conceit of pomp or power.

Page 299, note 1. Wordsworth's Ode,

Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." The first line of the quotation should be

Though nothing can bring back the hour."

Page 299, note 2. "Concord, 11 October, 1839. At Waltham, last Sunday, on the hill near the old meeting-house, I heard music so soft that I fancied it was a piano-forte in some neighboring farm-house; but on listening more attentively I found it was the church-bells in Boston, nine miles distant, which were playing for me this soft tune. Page 300, note 1. This passage suggests his poem "Each

and All."

Page 300, note 2. Of Nature's traits he wrote,

She paints with white and red the moors

To draw the nations out of doors.

Page 300, note 3. In the autumn of 1834, immediately after his return from Europe, Mr. Emerson began his new life as a lecturer by giving two lectures before the Society of Natural History in Boston. In the Introductory Lecture he urged the fitness for men of the study of Nature, and the second lecture was "On the Relation of Man to the Globe," calling attention to the relation of use, but also to the relation of beauty.

Page 301, note I.

Tell men what they knew before;

Paint the prospect from their door.

Fragments on Life," Poems, Appendix.

Page 302, note I. Here followed in the lecture the words,

"The deeper you bore, the farther you get away from the

cause.

Page 303, note 1. Compare the quatrain called "Ca. " in the Poems.

sella

Page 304, note 1. These thoughts and images occur in "The Over-Soul" (Essays, First Series, p. 293), and in the Poems in "Manners" and the lines in “Saadi”: ——

Nor scour the seas, nor sift mankind,

A poet or a friend to find:

Behold, he watches at the door!

Behold his shadow on the floor!

and in the " Fragments on Life" in the verses beginning Love asks nought his brother cannot give.

Page 305, note 1. Mr. Sanborn engaged a learned Ger man, Dr. Solger, to give a course of lectures on History a his private school, and Mr. Emerson, with other residents c

Concord, attended them. This incident appears to have been the fruit that he carried away from the course.

Page 305, note 2. Mr. Charles Lane is here spoken of, one of the English gentlemen who returned with Mr. Alcott from England in 1844, bent upon trying in New England the experiment of a loftier and simpler method of living. The short-lived Fruitlands Community was the result.

Page 306, note 1. This paragraph in the lecture began, "The only Muse I know of is health, which is the timing, symmetry and coördination of all the faculties so that the nimble senses catch reports from things which in ordinary hours they do not render."

Page 306, note 2. Pons Capdueil, a Provençal gentleman in the twelfth century, skilled in all the accomplishments of a knight and minstrel.

Page 306, note 3. Couture, the eminent French painter, of the last generation, wrote, " You, painter, you are born to make men love and understand Earth's beauties, and not to

Page 307, note 1. This page on what is positive and abiding, from an old lecture, seems here appropriate:

"We find stability central amidst all this dismaying whirl. Life looks so petty and frivolous around us, men so rude and incapable, victims of vanity, victims of appetite, scorners and corrupters of each other, and nothing so high and sacred but you shall find mobs of ferocious and ignorant men ready to tear and trample it down for some paltry bribe, were it only a bottle of brandy; and their leaders, for a bribe only a little less paltry, hounding them on. We see the historic culture of the most enlightened populations threatened by barbaric masses. We see empires subverted and the historic progress of civiliza

tion threatened.

We see religious systems on which nations have been reared, pass away. The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. Judaism, Stoicisim, Mahometism, Buddhism, all discredited and ending. Nay, the venerable and beautiful traditions of Christianity, in which we were educated, losing their hold on human belief, day by day; but central in the whirl a faith abides, which does not pass, a central doctrine which Judaism, Stoicism, Mahometism, Buddhism, Christianity, all teach."

Page 308, note 1. The test here mentioned, namely, the state of mind in which the new prophet or revelation leaves you, Mr. Emerson mentions in connection with so-called Spiritualism" in the essay on Demonology in Lectures and Biographical Sketches.

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In the lecture Success" the following anecdote was at this point introduced: "When Campbell heard Joseph Gerald defend himself in the court in Edinburgh, he said to the stranger next him, By Heaven, sir, that is a great man!' 'Yes, sir,' he answered, he is not only a great man himself, but he makes every other man feel great who listens to him.'

Page 308, note 2. Mr. Emerson notes, in his journal, of Socrates, that he was more afraid of himself than of the people of Athens. At the end of this paragraph in the lecture "Success" followed this sentence: "I value a man's trust in his fortune, when it is a hearing of voices that call him to his task. When he is conscious of a work laid on him to do, and that Nature cannot afford to lose him until it is done."

Page 308, note 3. In the "the picture of the crucifixion"

lecture Mr. Emerson wrote

instead of "some sacred sub

jects," and at the end of the sentence he added: "and su

dead Romeos, and smothered princes; Nature does not so. Nature lays the ground-plan," etc.

Page 309, note I. "Like Byron," which stood in the lecture, is here omitted.

Page 309, note 2. Wordsworth, "Poems dedicated to National Independence."

"Be an

Page 311, note I. From the Manuscripts: opener of doors to those who come after you, and don't try to make the Universe a blind alley."

Page 312, note 1. This passage is a fragment from the lost tragedy Philoctetes of Euripides.

OLD AGE

When boyhood and first youth had gone, and to the coming on of care and toil ill health was added, the young Emerson

I bear in youth the sad infirmities

That use to undo the limb and strength of Age.

But a less impatient mper than that of his ardent brothers enabled him to pass through those critical years and emerge even from grief and disappointment to the cheerful courage of his new life. Thereafter he had nothing to do with Time, except to choose wisely the gift from each of the long procession of sacred Days. He used to tell that, when he was a growing boy, his uncle asked him how it was that the young people did not like him, while their elders did. Now," he said, "the case is reversed: the old people distrust and dislike me, while the young come to me."

And with courage and work, his eyes open to beauty, mani