FOOTNOTES
[1] Frothingham's Transcendentalism in New England: a History—a judicious, acute, and highly interesting piece of criticism.
[2] English Traits, 7-18. Ireland, 143-152. Froude's Carlyle, ii. 355-359.
[3] Clough's Life and Letters, i. 185.
[4] The reader who seeks full information about Emerson's life will find it scattered in various volumes: among them are—
Ralph Waldo Emerson; by George Willis Cooke (Sampson Low & Co., 1882)—a very diligent and instructive work.
R.W.E.; by Alexander Ireland (Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1882), described by Carlyle, and known by others, as 'full of energy and broad sagacity and practicality; infinitely well affected to the man Emerson too,'—and full moreover of that intellectual enthusiasm which in his Scotch countrymen goes so often with their practicalities.
Emerson, at Home and Abroad; by Moncure D. Conway (Trübner & Co., 1883): the work of a faithful disciple, who knew Emerson well, and has here recorded many interesting anecdotes and traits.
[5] New England Reformers: Essays, ii. 511-519.
[6] The Swedenborgians—'a sect which, I think, must contribute more than all other sects to the new faith, which must come out of all.'—To Carlyle, 1834.
[7] Essays: Spiritual Laws, etc.
[8] What so good, asks Rousseau, 'as a sweet and precious ignorance, the treasure of a pure soul at peace with itself, which finds all its blessedness in inward retreat, in testifying to itself its own innocence, and which feels no need of seeking a warped and hollow happiness in the opinion of other people as to its enlightenment?'
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