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strong features--a man who would excite attention, in
any company whatever, not only for his figure but for
the expression of singular mildness and human love
which marks his countenance. He had lately arrived
here from the Peace Congress, I believe in Paris,
and talked about peace principles, of which much
is said and taught in these the oldest lands of the
Pilgrim Fathers.
Boston, December 2. Here I am in the midst of a
severe cold, but in a warm and handsome room in Revere
House, with a glowing fire to bear me company. In the
forenoon I went to church, and heard a singular kind
of sermon from Theodore Parker, a man of powerful
character and richly gifted as a speaker, who with a
strong and fearless spirit applies the morality of
Christianity to the political and social questions
of the day and country. He has a Socratic head and
large, wellformed hands. His whole being, expression,
and gestures, struck me as entirely original--the
expression of a determined and powerful nature.
Tuesday, December 4. I have just returned from
a little journey to Concord, the oldest town in
Massachusetts and the residence of Ralph Waldo
Emerson. We went there and arrived in the midst of
a regular snowstorm. But the
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