, 1861-02-15
! .Asxeet, attractive Kind Of graca,
Afnll assurance it gives bF looks,
Continual comfott in i Gaco. !
ThA Nnnsxs4 at.f 4 Of af,sf,nt htaaka =

= We call It q singular fact becsu9e we ynn-~
KEGS are thought to be fond ofthe spread. .eagia
style, md nothing can be more remote from
that than his. We are 7eckoued q practical
folk, who would rather hear about a, new air.
tight stoTe than, ,about. Plato; Jet ohr farorite
teaclers pzacti cabilty Is not In the least ofthe
: Poor Richard variety. : II hn1 have any Bun
combe constituency, it Is that 1nreallzed COM
>monwealth Of: philosophers which Piotinus.
proposed TO establish; and If be were to make
be something like ,this: "ooroBEas 1pdtan
6xuune,-, now is:the time to get In your early
,Vedns." What, then,,:is his aeeErts. Ii it not,
That lie out.YankAal ia ALI that his range In
-claies us ait 1hat he D equally at homo with
tho potctR dis&saae md original sin, with peg
all trades, 80 has be, tried p4l cultures? and
above ali, that, his mysticism gives ns q coun-
.tespoise 10 our eupcr. r.psactiahlity.
A.. There j. no man Lying TO whom, q writer
80 many Of 1B feel and thankfully ncknowl-.
edge 20 grrat an indebtedness for enobllng i'm;
What: does he mean ask these Inst sWhere u
his system? What ii the use OF It i'll ? What:
tho duce have. re. to do with the Bsahma Z:
Well we do not propose to, write au exay Oh
E1nersuu At the {ag;end Ola February :dnantic,
with secession longing for somebody to. hold
teapot. We will only .s.y that We have found
grapdcpr. ,npd 4; conso'stiqns in starltt night
+: without caring 70 -aaG, 1Nhat it meant. saye
grandeur nnd consolation we hare liked Mon
taisne, rs come ten generations before Is have
done, without thinking him so systematic as
! some tnore!cntinentiy fcdlona. Tor shall We eay
:*ediously eminent y authors we hare thought
roses ae good in tlreir way as cabhages, though
the litter Wuuld have 1nade a:better show In
Lhc'witncss-boxs If cross examined as to their
usefulness !; and Is for Brahmn, Why he cant
tsko care oi himself. -dnd ~6on't bite ns Mt any
rats, .-.t;- -!r- 80 ':Fsn-ss 80
: Thc bother with Mr. Emerson: u.s.; that,
though he writfa lii prose, ,he u essentially 4
poet IL yousundertRhp to paraphrase what ka
says, md ID reduce IT. to words ,of, one sylIa-s
BILE for infant minds, you Riu ..makp as: sad D.
work Of It us the good monk with his analysis
ct Homer Inf :11eeEpistput -Obscu6rpm Yiros:
rum.',; Va look apon lin as ope; ;o the men
of genius whom our age has proauced, End there
needs no bitter proof OF, it than his msseulinc
faculty,of ;fecundatlng ,othfr pal1dg> Search
fl his eloquenGG IN hla hook9 Ind you viii
petcllante miss It put, meanWhile: :{ou will
choicsand ::ptth of ls,,gnagn; ;hest belongs to n
with Fuller and Browne, though he does use
l. that abo1ninah1e word5 faiat*3- 1HiA-eye for a
fue, telling Jihsa{e that Nln carry, trne 1s11ke
fbat of i b3tkW6od odsnaSn fof d Hi; and he will
dredIo Won IN d choice void from ha ookEoy
Cottnn Nathef hirnse = Addiction Ht once 60
rIclT and 10 ~huneay rs his, wgktdW not wferE
to match In these days Of writing ythe page;;
,Itds Ike hopf{ paul cletb:of fEol1ss The Imany:
cannot raise his meaning, and onlf tt1e'tdw eau
find ua.In .the ppsan sAecftt nf al true genius
What .doeF ehe. MEM :quathh3a He. meana tn<'
spfipg hlnts a 9vlnang,rosa, r. T92E deeper
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