LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Frontispiece

From a daguerreotype taken by Hawes in 1854,
in the possession of the family, and never before
reproduced

MR. EMERSON'S HOUSE IN CONCORD,
Showing Mr. Emerson standing by the entrance
From a photograph

MR. EMERSON'S STUDY

From a photograph

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I

HISTORY

THERE is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all :
And where it cometh, all things are;
And it cometh everywhere.

I am owner of the sphere,

Of the seven stars and the solar year,

Of Cæsar's hand, and Plato's brain,

Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain."