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beautiful little boy, his eldest son. He also lost his
first wife after having been married scarcely a year.
Emerson is now married for the second time and has
three children. Mrs. Emerson has beautiful eyes,
full of feeling, but she appears delicate, and is
in character very different from her husband. He
interested me without warming me. That critical, cold,
and crystalline nature may be very estimable, quite
healthy, and is in its way beneficial for those who
possess it, and also for others who allow themselves
to be measured and criticised by it; but, as for me,
David’s heart with David’s songs!
I shall return to this home in consequence of a very
kind invitation to do so from Emerson and his wife,
and in order that I may see more of this sphinx-like
individual. From the worshipper of nature, Emerson
(who does not belong to any church, and who will
not permit his children to be baptized, because he
considers the nature of a child purer than that of the
ordinary sinful adult) we went away to spend the night
at the house of a stern old Puritan, where we had
long prayers, kneeling with our faces to the wall.
I must tell you that, at a socialist meeting one
evening, I saw a great number of respectable-looking
people and heard theories of the future, as
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