New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-10
For The Tribune.
sThe Children Of the INist.'

Thanks-thanks, Mr. Tribune, for the mastery
showing up OF this family of Sciolls's in your Sat
urday's raper Much as admire both Bancroft
and Bryant, (per sefpsos) am content that my
favorite writers should be we'll hammered when
they figure as philosophers. The cause OF tu;h
and sound thinking has no more dangcro7 cnt my
than tue Man of Genius, who, having wen rcPuta-
ton in some sphere of letters wherein his ability,
judgement and taste arc undcnlabe, brings the
weight of that reputation TO uphsd what Is crude
in thought and shallow in philosophy. have read,
sir, The Lectures of Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson, as
YOU reported them in the Tribune, and again and
again taken UP my pen to ask you what you meant
by serving up for US at this time oil day the VISION
ary ipeenuites of Rousseau US neac thoughts, only
because the st,ed verba ge of the Boston Lecturer
was substituted lor the graceful diction OF the author
Of the Sgs!em Sociale and Lie NoureNe Heloise
Il certainly could not have been 20 introduce the
Frenchman to your readers in an Engiish dress
| That "Old.School Tfanscendentaiist - love
him, Sir, for that .cholarke article lit Is to the
| few such men among US that we can look to PASS
on TO poseflty the light of aacient letters winch
kindled cur day. Those steady rays OF glorious
intellect whose present and prospective beneht 10
mankind we are so willing to forego tor The rush.
light illumination that flares up daily IN some new
form around us.
What are called "leading minds in modern
slang are tso often committing the same sort Oh
mischief as that so stupidity perpetra,ed by those
| monks of old who wrote their drivellng legends
upon Roman velum needless how they obiitera-
ted the masterpieces of intellect which had been
| traced thereon requests from Goi-iike minds to
| the human race at laIge beqaests which every
man, if he hath not the understanding to appfe-
cia,e. should still retain the honesty TO transmit
unimpaired TO those who are TO come after him
But am writing an article when only intended
a paragraph; yer must say one thing before ! con-
! elude; and know your Independence ana iear!ess
integrity too we'll, Mr.. Tribune, to surmise thai
you viii no, publish IL Il is to charge you, slf,
with being the very-yes-' The MAcGREseR OF
these ChsidreR OF tie -nist.' Brushing, see you
own the soft impeachment. No! you turn upon
me and with your foot upon your native heaah)
YOU say, :. Well, let the March of Mind lead on
gladly would marshal it, though t is mine osy
70 ,race iss wanderings. Mr., Tribune, there never
was a greater humhug than that said Ma7ch d
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