Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-30

Horatio Greenough. the American
sculptor. Through Greenough Mr.. Emer-
son was introduced to Walter Savage
Lander, then residing near Florence.
From Italy Mr.. Emerson proceeded to
England by way of France. He tells al
most cynically what were the motives
which led him to visit Great Britain-tbe
wish to see the faces Of three or four
writer's: Coleridge, Wordsworth, Lander,
De Quincy. Carlyle, he says: II suppose
II had sifted the reasons which led me
to Europe, 1t was mainly the attraction
or these persons. If Goethe had been
living I might have been led into Ger
many Also" Two years after his return
correspondence sprang up between
Emerson and Carlyle which lasted till
Carlyles death.
Soon after his return he began his
career as lecturer, before the Boston
Mechanics Institute his subject being
water" He gave also three other lee
tures-two on Italy and one on the
"Revelation of Man to the Globe In
1884 he gave in Boston a series Of bio
graphical lectures on Michael Angelo.
Milton. Luther. George Fox and Edmund
burke. the first two of which We're pub
lished in the North American Review.
OF lectures in Boston. and became one
or the best known lecturers throughout
the United States. 1t is said that he lee
tured for forty successive seasons before
the Salem Lyceum. He also made re-
peated' lecturing tours in the western
states. and even lectured in California
and Great Britain. In 1885 he married
Lidian Jackson of Plymouth, and took
up MS residence in the quiet little village
or Concord. 20 miles from Boston, where
nc made his home ever after. ,s
Inc following year he published thin
volume on Mature" 1t took twelve years
to sell 500 copies of it. This was followed
by several orauons before literary socie-
ties on such themes as Man Thinking,
Literary Ethics. etc. More important even
than these was his remarkab BILE Address
before. the Senior Glass at Divinity Coz.
/ sc, Cambridge" delivered July Is. 1888.
From these various addresses and publi-
cations may be dated the movement of
Transcendentalism. His essays were
pub ished IN two volumes in 1S41 and 1914
Emerson's second visit to Europe was
made in lSAS this time to deliver by spec
ial invitation, a series of lectures in the
principal places of England and Scotland.
Once again, af,er a lapse of twenty
years. he made third visit to Engla nd
Emerson was tall and slender not of ro-
| bust ply rather sallow in the face,
with an aquiline nose. brown hair, and
eyes of the strongest and brightest
| blue His appearance was majestic. He
was calm kindly in expression, and fire.
quently smiled, but seldom laughed His
manners were disnitied but exquisjtely
simple. He was ready listener and Of
ten seemed to prefer listening, as if he
We're to be instructed rather than to in
struct. He rarely showed irritation. His
! hospitality was almost unbounded, and he
! frequently waited upon the humblest Of
his guests with his own hands.
Much question has been made whether
Emerson was rather poet than a
philosopher or whether he was philoso-
pher at all. An exact philosopher he was
not but all that he wrote and said was
based upon philo sophie ideas. Writing to
his former colleague Henry Ware he said:
| Il cOult not give an account of myself if
che llenged. l do not know what argu-
ments are in reference to any expression
of thought. l delight in telling what 1
ments are in reference to any expression
of thought. l delight in telling what I
think. but if you ask me how l dare say
so, or why il is so, l am the most helpless
! Of mortal men, In April, 1882 he TOOK
a severe cold, and attended by his son,
d.. Edward Waldo Emerson. died of
pneumonia. He was buried in the ceme-
terry at Concord, near the graves Of Haw-
thorne and Thoreau, in ground over
which he had often walked and talked
with then and Margaret Fuller.