RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
260
Men
will read
ture which
now
any essay or
has for
before me,
lec
one
Emerson complains America which Carlyle
same things in groaned over in England
We
any the
" Success."
of the
"
listen to
subject, like
its
:
countenance each other in this
life of
show,
of public puffing advertisement, and manufacture is lost sight of in the hunger and excellence ; opinion
for sudden performance
"Now, though
I
reader will assent to
we
shall agree in
all
my
shpU ctop the brag
and
am by
praise.
no means sure that the
my
propositions, yet I think
first rule for success,
that
we
and the advertisement and take
Michael Angelo's course, ' to confide in one's " be something of worth and value.'
self
and
Reading about "Success"
much
"How
old
in
like
reading not to do it,"
is
is after all very books of alchemy.
the lesson of all the
treatises. Geber and Albertus Mag Roger Bacon and Raymond Lully, and the
books and nus,
whole crew of "pauperes alcumistae," all give the most elaborate directions showing their student
how
to fail in
transmuting Saturn into
and Sol and making a " Success " in
billionaire
of
Luna
himself.
the gaining of vulgar sense, is not be to reached by position, of the rules an instructor. Our " selffollowing its
money and
made men," who govern
the country by their wealth and influence, have found their place by