Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1838-1841

zen. Symbols of Harrison campaign. Inviting com-
pany. Our perilous foundation. Immersed in a river.
Increase our faith; trifle of diet. Our expense. Society.
Time and Fate fix relations. The Man behind the
sentence. Practical man and prophet. Egotism. Love
and intellect. Osman, his endowment and his fortune.
Self-trust. The Greeks; no time in the antique. Chil-
dren's speech. The gloomy comrade. The woodman's
real thought. Prometheus; Eschylus. Memory.
Nature's counsel. Graces of sleep. Carlyle has power
and wit; no philosopher; exhaustive. Life and poems.
Education raises man above circumstance. Fine Be-
havior. Sun and shade. Genius bids work. The
woods a temple; Love be thy art. Question for schol-
ars. The short visit. Miss Martineau's Deerbrook.

Character. Pericles and Aspasia. A woman's criticism.

The Dial's purposes. All history personal. The old

in the new. Poet needs good and bad chances. Clouds.

Love makes us children. Be, not say. Exacting friends.

Ovid. Gaston de Foy. Love of friends. Talk of what

you know. Christianity now insists on persons, not

ideas. Courts. Truth. The forest. Oblique training.

The Lonely Society. Gardening. Character comes

out. Experiments in Community. Sarah Clarke. New

questions. Property. Sleep. Toiling terribly. Con-

version of a woman. Experimenting in life. Life all

emblems; the angle. Trust the God within; Light

coming; Nature's teaching; she is all-musical; has

no shock. I love your virtue .
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Saccharine faces. Broadcast virtue. Rhetoric's charm.
The soul. Whigs. Reform looks not back. Property.

compliments to Dial;

True friendship. Marriage of friends. Life's romantic
power; waiting; Nature reassures and rewards. The
riddle of the landscape. A timesworth. Attacks are
exhortation to it. Brook Farm
project does not attract. "Bonduca." Society con-
stricts, Obey your Call; draw on Nature; wild
poetry. Let the elemental laws work. Life present;
Swedenborg. Each supposes another himself. Crea-
tion, not gold. History of Jesus typical. Moods.
Church horns. A wedding gift. Dignity. Self-reli- -
ance again. Saccharine principle. Osman and the fine
folk. Soul will win; infinite Time. Essence of a
book. Life shows your compass. Elemental death.
Excess of directions; God drives us on ever. The poet
who gives wisdom and faith. Useful swearing. Rule
of transformation. Thought's twilight. The angel's
command. Vision of retribution. Dependent and in-
dependent. Joy not pain endures. Literature's excuse.
Imitation. In Nature all equal. Working power of
Art. The Moon's phases and the Spirit's; yet strive
on. Gleams from Nature; moments. Godlike calm.
French novels. Circles. Nitrous oxide. Jesus's com-
mand of silence. Man finds what he is. Self-service
elegant. Thoughts during music. Wrinkles. The great
circles. Nature's message derided, yet true. Beauty
cannot be held. How to treat a genius? The Flow-
ing; heed the lesson. Crowns waiting us. Waldo's
prayer. Real or absurd immortality; your share of
God. The living God neglected. Dream of debate on
Marriage; solution. Be Universalists. Love of Jesus
and of the great scriptures reasonable. Reading 465-503

CONTENTS

JOURNAL XXXII

1841

(From Journals E, F, G, H, and J)

Thoreau as helpful friend. The First Essays. Goethe;
Beethoven. Nature's continence. The Confessional.
Nature's song ever new. The memory of progress.
Influence. Progress of Knowledge. Plotinus listening
for the oracle. Man a link. Snow and woods. Na-
ture's sublime law. God gives facts; find their reason.
Forest thoughts. Ecstasy and the soul. To-day; its
shining remembrance. Novels, Quentin Durward,
Wilhelm Meister, their moral; diaries and autobio-
graphies. Half-sickness. The Concert. Magic chest
of tea. Labor and letters; marriage, wife's protection.
No time; hurry. Spring. Experience not valid against
soul's possibility. Friends given Essays. Poet and
Poem; the sincere dissembler. French. Iamblichus
on Pythagoras. Mexican views. Nature; Man the
receiver, to recreate. Social tests for all, their fruit.
Nichol's astronomy and Saint-Simon's Mémoires. Re-
wards. Poems. The Café. Precepts to children. Pre-
sent literature abroad and here; rejection, discontent,
slight reformers. Samuel G. Ward. Life of talent or
following your own sacred path. Polite war. The
advancing West. Animals. The scholar's courage.
Man sacred. Hold to your quest. Opportunity. God
in man. Vitality, ascendency; subservient scholars. Re-
vealing eyes. Balance. Beauty goes with truth. North
End picturesqueness stirs the painter within; each