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INTRODUCTORY.

ABOUT twenty-five years ago Herman Grimm, a clever German writer, happened to be in the apartments of an American friend then sojourning in Germany. Upon the table lay a thin volume entitled "Essays by R. W. Emerson." He glanced hastily over the leaves, but could make nothing out of their contents, and declared that they seemed to him to be sheer nonsense. His

friend assured him that this was by no means the judgment of competent persons in America, where Emerson had come to be regarded as one of the foremost thinkers of the age-a man whose utterances were worthy of all attention, and, even when they seemed to be obscure, of careful study and meditation.

Thus admonished, Grimm took up the book

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