PREFATORY NOTES.
IV
tion of kindred tone from Rev. William R. Williams, D.D.,
of
New York
:
27
GROVE STREET, December
MY DEAR
DR.
HAGUE
Your personal
21, 1883.
:
acquaintance
with
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
at the turning-point in his history, and in years after, gives your The relations personal reminiscences of him marked value.
New Platonism of earlier on the Materialism, Agnosticism, and times, and their bearing in own our that Pantheism age, are worthy to be seriously emerge I trust your Essay may be fitly published and widely pondered.
of
his
read.
philosophical
views to the
Yours
truly,
WILLIAM
R.
WILLIAMS.
In this connection, also, I introduce a communication from the Rev. John Lord, LL.D., author of "Ancient Old Roman World," etc.: States and Empires," "
NEW
YORK, Feb.
29, 1884.
DEAR DOCTOR HAGUE I am glad to learn that your :
paper on Emerson, with whom you were so long and well acquainted, is soon to be published. You will render a service in showing how far Neo-Platonism, the Phi losophy of Plotinus, entered into his writings.
Most
truly, J.
LORD.