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bration which are still to take place are
bound to excite further interest
throughout the country in this remark
able centenary. Tomorrow, for in
stance, in Boston's new Symphony
Hail. erected largely through the mu-
nificence of Maj. Henry Lee Higginson,
a great commemorative meeting is to
be held at which Senator George Fris-
bic Hoar will preside, Rev. Edward
Everett Hale will act as chaplain, and
President Eliot of Harvard win be a
principal speaker. Choral music from
the Handel and Haydn Society and the
reading of a poem by Prof. George II.
Woodbury. of Columbia University will
lend further attractiveness to the
event. The churches. too. will nat
urally enough resound with Emerson
ian discourses. At Appleton Chapel.
Cambridge, a sermon on Emerson is 10
be delivered by Francis G. Peabody.
dean of the Harvard Divinity School,
and the various churches throughout
the Boston community will, practically
without respect to denomination. vie
with one another in honoring this for
mer Unitarian minister who gave up
the habit of formal discourse from the
pulpit to preach to the larger constit-
uency which he could reach from the
lecture platform. Undoubtedly the
most impressive of all these exercises
will be that held at old Concord in the
First Parish Church where Emerson
used to preach and which still stands,
an impressive example of the simple
dignity of oldfashioned New England
architecture. Here a memorial service
will be held at which addresses are to
be made by Senator George F. Hoar,
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, Prof. Will
liam James. and Col. Thomas Went
worth Higginson.
EDigrams from Emerson.
Go with mean people, and you think
life is mean. Then read Plutarch, and
the world is proud place, people with
men of positive quality. with heroes
and demigods standing around us, who
will not let us sleep.-"Books."
1t makes a great difference to the
force of any sentence, whether there
be man behind it, or no.-"Repre-
sentative Men"
The secret of genius is to suffer no
fiction to exist for us; to realize all
that we know; in the high refinement
of modern life, in arts, in sciences, in
books, in men, to exact good faith,
reality and purpose and first. last
midst. and without end. to honor every
truth by Representative Men,"
There is no luck in literary reputa-
ton. They who make up the final YER
dict upon every book are not the par
tial and noisy readers of the hour when
ii appears; but a court as of angels, a
public not to be bribed, not to be en-
treated, and not to be overawed, de-
cides upon every mans title to fame.
Only those books come down which
deserve to last.-"Spiritual Laws"
Life is not so short but that there is
always time enough for courtesy
Social Aims"
Every act of the man inscribes itself
in the memories of his fellows, and in
his own manners and face.-"Repre-
sentative Men"
Our life is an apprenticeship to the
truth that around every circle another
can be drawn; that there is no end in
nature, but every end is a beginning;
that there is always another dawn ris-
en- on mid-noon, and under every deep
lower deep opens.-"Circles."
Nature paints the best part of the
picture; carves the best part of the
statue; builds the best part of the
house; and speaks the best part of the
oration.-"Art."
And what is Originality? It is be-
ing, being ones salt, and reporting ac-
curately what we see and are. Genius
is, in the first instance, sensibility. the
capacity of receiving Just impressions
from the external world, and the power
Of co-ordinating these after the laws of
thought.-"Q Quotation and Originality"
The less government we have, the
better-the fewer laws, and the less
confided power The antidote to this
abuse of formal government is the in
fluence of private character, the
growth of the dividual.-'Politics."
A friend may well be reckoned the
masterpiece Of nature. Friendship"
The great Pan of old, who was cloth
ed I'm a leopard skin to signify the
beautiful variety of things, and the
armament, his coat of stars, was but
the representative of thee, o, rich and
various Man; thou palace Of sight and
sound, carrying in thy senses the morn
ing and the night and the unfathom-
able galaxy; in thy brain the geometry
OF the City of God; in thy heart the
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