CONTENTS Letter to Aunt Mary: Byron's death. Books of the Cen- turies, A Man. Each and All. Tiberius. Questionings: Truth elusive, honest doubts; good seen everywhere. Books and Men, Writing for Americans, a proposed Spectator. Civilization. Society or Solitude. Frag- ment for Sermon, God within. Imagination. Provi- dence. Faith a telescope. Aunt Mary's reproving letter: "Holy Ghost"; degenerate Cambridge; Channing and Ware; diluted Calvinism; Christ against "Ger- man madness"; an appeal. A portion of the nephew's Reflections on closing his School; cultivate sympathy. 203762 a free mind. Henry Clay. Leaves Roxbury for Cam- JOURNAL XVII Teaching again in Roxbury and Cambridge. Joy in 36 CONTENTS unworthily pictured; hard to conceive without Matter; surely welcome. Another letter: Poetry; Poet needs material form, Life as well as Imagination; Shakspeare and Wordsworth contrasted; criticism of latter; what is poetry? Happiness defined. Letter to Aunt Mary: the moments of our lives. Funeral rites of Adams and Jefferson. Letter to Edward: the Soul's affinities. Quiddle. Reflections, bowing to necessity. Sampson Reed's book. Increasing ill health and depression; hope of Edward's return from Europe; take courage, and die like a gentleman. Christianity and morals; Rea- son of Evil. Religious dogmas pass; what then? Poi- sons. Letter to Aunt Mary: Hume again, and Gibbon. Shakspeare; Burke; Everett; Emerson's own cold temperament. Another letter: Sampson Reed's Growth of the Mind; Swedenborgians; day of sentiment. Ap- probated to preach. Combats of Conscience. Belief in the Resurrection. Study of History. Butler on trans- lations. Verses: Life or Death; Song. Emerson sails southward for his health. Versatility. The voyage. Charleston; tides of thought. Moral sense native; dis- coveries and science in morals. Advancing religion. The new year; reflections, principle. Note-books. Love of eloquence. The fortunate generation. Freemasonry vii |