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English race, and one might say that in him the
idealism of Germany is wedded to the realism of
Britain.
I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary
lion; but I would go a considerable way to see
Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New
World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old
trees to hew them down and to open the path for new
planting. And see him I will--him who, in a society
as strictly evangelical as that of Massachusetts
and Boston (Emerson was the minister of a Unitarian
congregation in Boston) had the courage openly to
resign his ministration, his church, and the Christian
faith, when he had come to doubt some of its principal
doctrines; who was noble enough, nevertheless, to
retain universal esteem and old friends; and strong
enough, while avoiding all controversy and bitterness
of speech, to withdraw into silence, to labor alone
for that truth which he fully acknowledged, for
those teachings which heathen and Christian alike
recognize. Emerson has a right to talk about strength
and truth, because he lives for these virtues. And
it will benefit the world, which is slumbering in the
Church from lack of vital Christianity, to be roused
up by such fresh winds from the Himalaya of paganism.
Now I must tell you something of my late doings
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