The world: historical and actual . , bornin 1803, diedin 1882. In lifethey were warnfriends. Mar-garet Fuller(for the Marchioness I »< »--soli is bestknown by hermaiden name) was a brilliant critic. Her younglife had in it the promise of a great future. Sheis remembered more for what she was than forwhat she had already accomplished. Emersoncombines the philosopher, poet and critic. Edu-cated for the ministry, he was adapted rather tothe life of a student untrammeled by any pro-fessional obligations. He did a very great work inelevating the general tone of American and re
The world: historical and actual . , bornin 1803, diedin 1882. In lifethey were warnfriends. Mar-garet Fuller(for the Marchioness I »< »--soli is bestknown by hermaiden name) was a brilliant critic. Her younglife had in it the promise of a great future. Sheis remembered more for what she was than forwhat she had already accomplished. Emersoncombines the philosopher, poet and critic. Edu-cated for the ministry, he was adapted rather tothe life of a student untrammeled by any pro-fessional obligations. He did a very great work inelevating the general tone of American and readers were alike lifted by his geniusinto higher ranges of thought. Without ridiculingor condemning the vapid jjroductions which heldthe field in his younger days, he set about the culti-vation of better ideals and tastes. Therein was hischief work. Emerson may be said to have not onlyintroduced Thomas Carlyle to America, but to hisown countrymen. He long ago won recognition theworld over as one of the QTeat thinkers of our age-. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. »«T AMERICAN LITERATURE. 643
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