HIS WAYS WITH HIS CHILDREN. age, the whole of his
To one
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own doctrine of self-reliance. who was away from home,
of his daughters
at school, he writes
:
—
" Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remem-
You have done what you
ber.
could
;
some blun-
ders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. To-morrow is a new day ;
you
shall begin
it
well
and
serenely,
and with too
spirit to be cumbered with your old nonThis day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a
high a sense.
moment on Soon
the rotten yesterdays."
after his son's death
lecturing-tour to Providence
paid a
visit to his
Emerson went upon a and New York, and
brother William.
Staten Island, March
Dear Lidian
:
.
.
.
1,
1842.
Yesterday I dined with
Mr.
Horace Greeley and Mr. Brisbane, the socialist, at a Graham boarding-house. Mr. Brisbane promised
me
a full exposition of the principles of Fourieram once lodged at
ism and Association as soon as I
One must submit, yet I foresaw, moment when I encountered these two new
the Globe Hotel. in the
friends here, that I cannot content them.
are bent on popular actions. ory, ethics,
and
politics,
I am, in all
a poet
;
They
my
the-
and of no more