of his own mind."—"The American Scholar," Nature, Addresses and Lectures.
Page 48, note 2. "The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work, and gives it an inexpressible charm for the imagination. As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far will it retain a certain grandeur, and will represent to future beholders the Unknown, the Inevitable, the Divine."—"Art," Essays, First Series.
Page 49, note 1. Journal, 1835. "The Arts languish now because all their scope is exhibition; when they originated it was to serve the Gods. The Catholic Religion has turned them to continual account in its service. Now they are mere flourishes. Is it strange they perish?
"Poetry to be sterling must be more than a show, must have or be an earnest meaning. Chaucer, Wordsworth,—per contra, Moore and Byron."
Page 50, note 1. The following is from some loose sheets on Beauty (1866?):—
"Beauty was never locked up in Vaticans. It is there, but it is not less here. The seat of beauty is in the truth and health of the Soul. It is the incessant creation of the spirit of man, whenever bad affections and falsehoods do not paralyze his plastic power; places and materials are indifferent to it, and subject to it; a beautiful soul dwells always in a beautiful world."
Page 52, note 1. The following extract is from Mr. Emerson's journal in Florence, in April, 1834:—
"I revisited the Tribune this morning to see the Venus and the Fornarina and the rest of that attractive company. I reserve my admiration as much as I can: I make a continual effort not to be pleased except by that which ought to please
