New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-12
LECTURES.
MIR. EMERSON ON POWER.


The Tabernacle was crow ded on Tues
day evening to hear RALPH WALDO EMERSON read
lecture in the Peoples Course upon Power" The
audience was unclaimed throughout and the effect OF
tie and stately eoquence of the lecturer was
electrical We give a cursory abstract Of dis
course replete with the profoundest vision, and
rich with the most penetTan: wit May We not hope
that Mr. Emerson will repeat in this City, and be-
fore long the course he has lately read in Boston
Certainly the numbers, the attention and the enthu-
siasm OF last evening, must have demonstrated the
kind and extent OF the audience ne would assemble
The Lecturer commenced by remnking, TIA. Of
late he had been oftener hearer than speaker at
the Lyceum, and was struck by the problen MS
there discussed. The Lyceun will become the an
tcote to the newspaper. Glad to hear OF the inter-.
est manifested in the Peoples Course, he should as
sumo that the audience came to think, no: 70 be ca
tersined merely. The faculties Of man are iadef-
mite who shall limit his influence Some men
carry whole nations with them and lead the life OF
the day and of the hour. Life is a search after
Power, which lies IN 1t everywhere Every noble
mind is seeker, and is satisfied If out of The mys.
terry of Experience he can compel Power. All great
men believe that things go by Law and not by Luck.
| intend TO speak, said the Lecturer, OF No Della
Cruscan dream, bu. of the hard old home We know
Young orators say the secret of the age is here
and there. There is but one secret of all ages aud
that is lmbecility IN most a, all times, and IN
all men sometimes. The old Doctors decreed colr-
age TO be physical a certain healthy state OF tne
system given, and yaloT and success followed All
observation at length points to something central,
to the fact that all power is of one kind tina. he is
the man We want who is in sympathy with the course
Of things. This large and salient nature certifes
success. When James Watt arrives in England,
England is actually worth more than before Such
men absorb their Interiors the clerks work for the
merchant the students for the lawyer, &c.
There is always place for man Of force. 1t isin
the world as with boys al school with cattle in
pen. There must be trial of strength between the
rev comer ard the old residents Then all quietly
submit. Spare your much discussion of grating or
patching the point is the thrifty tree We must
have leader somehow. II the child grisve over
defest he is lost forever. Before the man of this
IsneleEs force every obstacle yanishes; hence our
troubles about American politics are needless. The
half orator half assassin comes from some Wisconsin
and Utah and We dread the end Of things Blu. the
stocks do not decline Like thrifty tree growing
spite OF the lice, ice mice and borers, so do no
suffer from the profgaies who ba..en upon the treas
uly. AAc Acce>eiAics Vi Inc Gaze VIII teach majesty
OF manners, fast enough
This poweris not amiable but it brings its own
anteote. All power develops together, up and down,
hither and thither. The " Bris9s"-men who have
roughly ridden over and through ihings-have their
peculiar vices, but their virtues also and, since
Politics are growing mean, when the question is be.
tween civility and force shall not hesitate. As in
Politics so in Trade this power has strain of fero
city.
How then SHAH We deal with this power Men
who have 1t, bum for adventure. They travel and
explore England is "a good animal, and runs up
all the mountains and goes for the North Yves, Pas