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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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