New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-22

r. W. EMER son TO THOMAS CARLYLE.

CONCORD March - 1885.
My DEAR SIR: am glad OF the opportunity of
Mr. Barnard, visit 10 say Health and Peace he with
YOU esteem II the best sIgn that has slone IN my
little section of space for many days shat some
thirty or more intelligent persons understand and
blrbIv appreciate the Sarior DR.. Charming sent
to me for If the other dav and | have since heard
that he had read with great interest. As soon as
/ 90 into town shall see hun and measure his lore.
! know his genus does not and cannot engage your
attention much. He possesses the uyst nous en-
dowment of natural cloquence, whose effect, how
ever intense is limited OF course to personal COM
munication l can see myself that his writings,
without his voice. may be meagrc and feeble.
But please love his catholicism, that at his
age can relish tine Sartor born aud
inveteratcd as be- is in old books. Moreover, he lay
awake all night he told my friend las week because
he had learned III the evening that some young men
proposed 10 issue journal 70 be called The Trans
ceudentalist" as the organ of spiritual philosophy
So much for our gossip of to-day.
But nv errand is vet to tell Some friends here
are very DESTROYS that Mr.. Fraser should send out
to a bookseller here fly or hundred
copies of the Sartor. so many we want
very much; they would be sold at once II we
knew that two or three hundred would be
taken I'D we should reprint ii now. But think It
first, and when they have extended thu demand for
1t, then 20 reproduce it. naturalzed Yankee. The
fTeulelsdrock here are Observation-Disclosures
tic an an iccle to them They think England must
be blind an deaf If the Professor makes no more
impression there than yet appears. l. with the
most afrctiouatc wishes for Thomas Carlyles fame
am mainly bent on securing the medicinal virtues
OF his book for my young ncigubOrs. The gOod pco-
pie think he overprai,cs Goethe. There give MIN
up to their wrath But bid them mark his IN
sleeping moral sentiments, that every other moral
isl occasionally mods, becomes compaisant and
traditional, but this Is. without interval, on
the side Of equity and humanity. am gri vel Tor
you, wise friend, that you cannot put in yGur
own coutemptuous disclaimer OF such pGrrancal
pleas set up FOR You, but each crea-
ture and lcyitc must do after his kind.
Yet do not imagine that VIII hurt You in this I'M
seen domain Of yours by any Bbswellism. Every
suffrage yoI get here Is fairly your own Nobody Is
coaxed 20 admire you and You have won friends
whom should be proud to show you, and honora-
bic women not few. And cannot you renew and
confirm your suggestion touching your own appear
ance in this Continent All, if | could give your
Intlmation the binding force of an oraculay word!-
in few months please God, at most, shall have
wife, house and home, wherewith and wherein 10
return your former hospitality, and if could draw
my prophet ana MS prophecies 10 brighten ana lu-
mortallze my lodge, and make 1t the window
through which for "A summer YOU should look out on
a field which Columbus and Berkeley and Lafay-
cite did not scOrn 10 sow, my sun should
shine clearer, and life would promise something
better than peace There is part of Ethics or in
Schleiermacher's distribution, IL might be physics
which possesses all attraction for me. TO wit, the
compensations of the universe. the equality and the
coexstence OF action and reaction. that all prayers
granted, that every debt is paid-and the skill
with which the great All maketh clean work as IL
goes along, leaves rag consumes It's smoke, will,
] hope, make a chapter In your thesis. minated
above that we aspire to have O work on the First
Philosophy In Boston, hope, or wish rather Those