Margaret and Her Friends / or, Ten conversations with Margaret Fuller upon the mythology of the Greeks and its expression in art, held at the house of the Rev. George Ripley, Bedford Place, Boston, beginning March 1, 1841

by Caroline Wells Healey Dall; Margaret Fuller

George Ripley asked if it were not generally accepted positively as “Thou art”?

“Probably,” Mr. Emerson said.

Henry Hedge found another type of the Apollo in the Egyptian Horus.

Mrs. Russell asked if the two Greek vowels had not once stood for Isis and Osiris. If so, they would have a natural connection with the oracle.

I remembered the inscription on the statue of Isis, “I am all that has been and that shall be, and none among mortals has taken off my veil.” The “I am” of the Jews, and the “Thou art” of the Delphic temple are epigrammatic, but the same.

Emerson, replying somewhat curtly to Mrs. Russell, said there were various explanations.

The story of Phaeton came next.

Henry Hedge asked how Presumption should be the child of Genius.

“Genius must be self-confident,” Margaret said, “and that might predominate.”