The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-24

thinker upon the earth was the utter
anee of Emerson, and was more apfsli-
cable to himself than to any other man
of modern times.
He practiced his great theory of the
unity of life. When his house burned
and Louise Alcott ran to him in great
alarm, she found him leaning against
a tree with a pleased smile on his face.
She cried out in great concern, But,
Mr.. Emerson, will not al your valuable
books and papers be Destroyer and he
merely said. Hush. Louise, / am
watching this fire now
L place Lincoln among the gods who
have dwelt in human flesh. but / es-
TEEN Emerson even higher, for, while
Lincoln wrote the immortal proclama-
ton that gave freedom to four million
slaves, Emerson was writing a greater
proclamation of an emancipation that
shall never cease in its effect until all
the sons of men are liberated from ig-
norance and superstition.
Union With God.
The gospel. according to Emerson
was The Infinitude of the Private
Man Not that man is infinite, but
that the real man is essentially spirit
ual and has within himself the ability
Of developing knowledge, wisdom,
character. peace and power. He taught
the spiritual constitution of the uni
verse, the unity of all life, evolution as
the unvarying method of progress. and
the final conscious union of all souls
with God
He possessed the rare power of
classifying the facts of the invisible
world. He taught the dignity, the
majesty, the self-sufficiency and the
potential deity of man. He taught that
God spake. but did not believe his voice
died away in echoes among the Cali
lean hills, but believed that God speaks
still, and that man may hear his voice
and acquaint his fellows at first hand
with God. These doctrines are famil-
lar enough today, but at the time
Emerson first taught them they Gre
ated great CONSERVATION. The dean of
the Liberal Divinity school of Harvard
college said, That part which is not
folly is downright atheism To use his
own words, he chose that virtue which
outrages the virtuous, and that form of
religion which the churches cease
their discords to burn and extermi-
nate
THE orthodox Pharisees and the
Unitarian Sadducees Joined hands to
cast him out. For thirty years he was
not allowed to speak on conservative
platforms, even at Harvard college |
But no man ever better exemplified his
own Injunction, Cast yourself on your
divinest impulses and there abide and
you viii see the whole world come
around to you
AFTER thirty years his alma mater
welcomed him back, bestowed on him
the degree of Ii. D., made him an
of the university, and the
other day named their new building of
Emerson hail.
Belonged to All the World.
He belonged not to Christendom
alone, but to all the world. A distin-
guished Jew says he was better He |
brew than the Hebrews A Hindoo said |
he was geographical mistake; he was |
a HindOO born in America
At the Tooth anniversary of his /
birth in 1908, it was celebrated -Syith |
honor. not only in liberal churches and |
colleges, but in almost all the schools |
and in very many churches of the most /
orthodox denominations. In one year
over eight millions of copies of his /
books were sold in three American
cities
He died April q, 1882, and people
,ame from far and wide TO the funeral.
In the church founded by his fathers,
freed from their creed by his larger |
thought. the sage lay in state. white
robed, while around him fell the first
tears he had ever caused TO friend or
leighbor.