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RALPH WALDO EMERSON PART SECOND.
A
division lengthwise by topics rather than by times we are to conceive, which we shall and label as follows, for better clarity we
crosswise letter
hope. Section A.
Productivity.
dentalism, shaped into
The Idea, Transcen
completed utterance
literary product of Emerson at its best. of his Intellect.
;
The
the tri
umph
Section B. Propagation. The Idea promulgated through various instrumentalities which have their center in Emerson. The triumph of his Will. Section C. Origination. The Idea in its earliest, most immediate forms of utterance the literary embryology of Emerson, his protoplasmic forms of expression. Such are the three
of
main themes of this the most Emerson s life, which Epoch,
important Epoch we must keep in mind, is the starter of his Second Period embracing the inner germinal substance of his achievement. Thus we seek in advance to indi cate the chief joints or sections of this intricate and peculiar organism of a life, well knowing that such
anatomy
is
pensable to
some readers, though indis knowledge of the subject. And
repellent to
any
final
we may be permitted again
to enforce the point that
is vaster, more than all the rest of more creative and complicated Let it be empha Emerson s career put together. sized in short that this is the most creative Epoch of the most creative Period of Emerson s entire life.
the content of the present Epoch