A little incident will shew his character and the peculiar power of his mind, better than any detailed description. He once had occasion to deliver a lecture in one of our large manufacturing towns in Massachusetts. The weather was rainy and the audience small. To a friend who expressed his regret that the audience was so small, he said, that if he could be sure of the earnest attention of a single mind, he should have enough to satisfy him-he should have object and inspi ration enough. The lecture which was a noble one, and much more elevated in its philosophy and moral tone, than is usual on such popular occasions, was delivered before the meagre audience. About a year afterwards, a rough looking operative in one of the factories was heard talking enthusiastically about a lecture he had heard the previous winter, and gave a complete account of it to his comrades, and heartily wished that the young man might come and repeat it to a larger audience. I do not know whether Mr. Emerson ever heard this story. If he did, he must have been happy in finding his wish gratified in having one attentive listener. If he did not hear it, he must still have been blessed in possessing a mind that thought itself fully repaid for its labors, by being able to address even but a single human soul, with words of philosophical truth and spiritual faith. He is gone. We mourn not for him. Indeed a sort of sad pleasure crossed my mind, when I heard of his passage. "For he was ours! and may that word of pride Drown, with its lofty tone, pain's bitter cry, To Goodness, Beauty, Truth, eternally. And far behind, dissolved in mists away, That which confines us all, the Common, lay."* From Goethe's lines on Schiller. END OF VOL L 432 An Ancient Parable, and a Modern Fact; by J. F. C. Agrarianism; J. Í. P. A Confession of Faith; J. F. C. 589 A Visit to Mobile; J. F. C. 701 714 A Word on Miracles; S. O. 777 Appendix to the "Man of Expedients; J. F. C. 783 Book of Ruth; by Goethe, 457 Baxter on Creeds, 475 Material Universe, Creeds annul the Lord's Supper; E. P. Criticism on No. IX. Campbell, Alexander-at Louisville; J. F. C. Character of James Freeman; J. F. C. 779 801 - 690 56 478 513 561 36-109-186 301 Duty of the Rich towards the Poor; W. G. E. Dr. Beecher and Dr. Wilson, Eloquence, Early Discovery in the Mississippi Valley, No. 1; P. 860 434 Elvira-a Sketch, 752 Extracts from History of Persia, 718 Emigrant's Lesson-Poetry, 581 Evils of Want of Faith. A Sermon; J. F. C. F.C. - S05 Friendship's Offereng, 29 Formation of the Moral Character, 195-241 Free Will and Providence; J. H. P. 429 Funeral of Spürzheim; J. F. C. 657 Fragments from Schiller, 439-600-604-605 Helps to Education, not always Helps; S. O. 832 Introduction, Intelligence, 79-151-228-370-732 "I would not live always away from that world,” Influence of Dissipation on the Intellect, E. P. Ignorance about Unitarianism; S. O. Indian's Bride; by Edward C. Pinckney, Icolmkill, Staffa, &c.; by John Keats, Leonard Woods, jr. and Dr. Priestly; W. G. E. Liberal Christian; J. H. P. Lines on the Death of a young Child; J. H. P. 171 182 764 770 820 824 310 600 204 209 265 424 524 545 612 672 857 361 138 Mystery in Religion recognized by Unitarians; W. H. F. 284 Mother and Child, Masses vs. Individuals; J. H. P. Memory; by Lewis F. Thomas, 292 308 339 Moral Power of Christianity; by the Rev. A. Bancroft, D. D. 350 Messenger's Affinities, J. F. Č. Melancthon, 355 577 Man of Expedients. 745 Manners and Habits of the Western Pioneers; M Butler, 785-837 Opening Heaven, 262 On the word Covenant; by Rev. C. Francis, 388 Old and New Year, 476 Review of Hall's Sketches; Mann Butler, Regeneration; J. F. C. Religious and Moral Independence; W. G. E. Recognition of Friends; E. P. Stuart and Schleiermacher; J. F. C. 721 763 viii 3 71 117-153 229-440-780 318 360 385 398 409 505 688 675 712 756 827 50 Spirit of Persecution, 81 Songs of the Past, Spirit of Decay, 174 270 Science of Travelling; J. H. P. 546 Sceptical Tendencies of Calvinism; by J. Q. Day, 649 Sermon on the West; by Rev. Geo. W. Hosmer, 733 The Chambers of Imagery, a sermon; by Rev. Mr. Froth- Temperance Address; by E. Bartlett, M. D. Theodore; or the Sceptic's Progress to Belief; translated The Atonement, No. 2, 561 565 To Subscribers-to Correspondents, and Readers, 650-300- 517 252 Washington; J. H. P. 327 Wisdom and Prudence-from Schiller; J. F. C. 442 |