KALPH WALDO EMERSON.
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The power
4.
of
the
will.
5.
Atmospheric
6. causes, especially the influence of morning. with nature. of converse 7. Solitude Solitary
that of a country inn in
itself, like
of a city hotel in winter.
New poetry by which, ;
old poetry that "
is
new
Every book is good mood."
8.
summer, and
Conversation.
9.
he says, he means chiefly to the reader.
to
read which sets the reader
in a working
What can promise more than an Essay by " Emerson on " Immortality ? It is to be feared that
many
readers will transfer this note of in
What is the terrogation to the Essay itself. definite belief of Emerson as expressed in this what does
discourse,
mean ? We must tack as we can find that will
it
together such sentences stand for an answer :
" I think all sound minds rest on a certain prelimi nary conviction, namely, that if it be best that con scious personal life shall continue,
it
will continue
;
and we, if we saw the whole, should of course see that it was better so." if
not best, then
This
is
will not
it
;
laying the table for a Barmecide feast
of nonentity, with the possibility of a real ban quet to be provided for us. But he continues :
" Schiller said,
must be
He
benefit.'
tells
'
What
is
so
universal
as death
"
us what Michael Angelo said,
how