EMERSON YEAR BOOK SELECTIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR FROM THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON BY A. R. C. "He is thus the medium of the NEW-YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD ST. 1902 64l JANUARY. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. man. January First. The world exists for the education of each There is no stage or state of society or mode or action in history, to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life. Everything tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him. January Second. We have the same interest in condition and character. We honor the rich, because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us. January Third. All literature writes the character of the wise man. Books, monuments, pictures, conversation, are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming. |