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drank water, and we drank--fog. He has paid me a few
visits, and has interested me as a study. He passed
last evening with me and my host, the Swedish consul
Benzon, and entertained us with various portions
of his doctrine. All blonde and blue-eyed people,
according to him, belong to the nation of light,
to the realm of light and goodness. I should think
Lowell would be Alcott’s ideal of a son of light;
all persons, however, with dark eyes and hair emanate
from the night and evil. I mentioned Wilberforce, and
other champions of the light, with dark hair. But the
good Alcott would not listen to objections, and his
conversations consist in his doing all the talking and
teaching. We drank tea, and I endeavored to persuade
Alcott to drink at least a glass of milk. But that
was too much akin to animal food. He would not take
anything but a glass of water and a piece of bread. He
is at all events a Transcendentalist who lives as he
teaches.
Boston, January 22. Now I must tell you about Concord,
and the sphinx there, Waldo Emerson, for I went
to Concord five days ago, attended by myself. I was
wretchedly unwell; whatever the cause might be, I sat,
weak with fever and dejected in mind, by the side of
the strong man, silent and without being able to say
a single
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