Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . hich is de-scribed as imbued with a passion uncommon inhi- utterances. Its effect on the assembly wassaid, by a competent judge who had heard thechief orators of the time, to have surpassed any-thing accomplished by them, and it seems to haveindicated a reserve power in Emerson seldom sus-d. In 1800 and 1802 he lost by death hisfriend Theodore Parker and his intimate com- panion Thoreau, both of whom he celebrated inmemorial addresses. The Conduct of Life waspublished in the former year—a series of essays onfate, power, wealth, culture, behavior, w
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . hich is de-scribed as imbued with a passion uncommon inhi- utterances. Its effect on the assembly wassaid, by a competent judge who had heard thechief orators of the time, to have surpassed any-thing accomplished by them, and it seems to haveindicated a reserve power in Emerson seldom sus-d. In 1800 and 1802 he lost by death hisfriend Theodore Parker and his intimate com- panion Thoreau, both of whom he celebrated inmemorial addresses. The Conduct of Life waspublished in the former year—a series of essays onfate, power, wealth, culture, behavior, worship,considerations by the way, beauty, and a diminished admixture of mysticism, itoffered a larger proportion of practical philosophy,and stated the limitations of fate in life, while butreaffirming the liberty of the individual. Hither-to Emersons books had sold very slowly; but ofthe Conduct of Life the whole edition, 2,500copies, was sold in two days. This is an index ofthe great change that had occurred in the popular. estimate of him since the issuing of his first vol-ume, Nature, twenty-seven years before. Hewho had been feared as a revolutionist, or laughedat as erratic, was now, at the age of fifty-seven, ac-cepted as a veritable prophet and sage. Thepeople and the times had, in a measure, grown upto him. A new Dial having been established inCincinnati about this time, he wrote for its the civil war he delivered a lecture on American Civilization at the Smithsonian insti-tution in February, 1862; an address in Boston onthe emancipation proclamation, September of thesame year; and at Concord, 19 April, 1865, he pro-nounced a brief eulogy on Abraham Lincoln. On 30 May, 1867, lie attended at the organiza-tion of the Free religious association in Boston, andstated his view as to religion briefly thus: As soonas every man is apprised of the Divine presence inhis mind, and sees that the law of duty correspondswith the laws of physical nature
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