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in his successes
him
in mental
" It
is
and there
;
is
no organization with
and moral spheres.
becoming
in the scholar to insist
on cen-
soundness rather than on superficial applica-
tral
I
tions.
that,
am
do that
demand
to ;
the absolute right, affirm
but not to push Boston into a
false,
showy, theatrical attitude, endeavoring to persuade her she is more virtuous than she is."
Meantime he was
men were
heartily glad that
found willing and able to throw themselves unhesitatingly
into
the
contest.
They might be
wrong-headed, he said, but they were wrong-headed in the right direction
"
The haters
:
—
of Garrison have lived to rejoice in
that grand world-movement which, every age or I two, casts out so masterly an agent for good.
cannot speak of that gentleman without respect. I found him the other day in his dingy office." (Journal, 1844.)
He
went
to Garrison's office, perhaps, to concert
for a meeting which the abolitionists held in the
Concord Court - House * on the this year
1st of
August
the liberation of the slaves in the British Indies. 1
in
(1844), to celebrate the anniversary of
Emerson delivered the
None of the churches would open their doors to At length Thoreau got leave to use the old
tion.
and himself rang the
bell.
West
address, which
is
the convencourt-house,