twenty years, that I never saw or suspected it, than in the twenty-first, when I drew by art a spark from my knuckle."
Page 289, note 2. Of the monotones, both of the aggressive reform and mystic type, Mr. Emerson had all too much experience, yet was always good-natured to them. The remark of his friend. Mr. Channing on the conversation of one of the latter type amused him,—"Biographie universelle de moi-même."
Page 292, note 1. Mr. Emerson had the strength and the skill to save himself for his own large mission in spite of the importunities that beset him to engage in causes, and yet kept the respect and good will of their advocates, and often helped bravely, but as a volunteer.
Page 292, note 2. Henry James, Jr., in one of his novels speaks of "the over-modelled American face."
Page 293, note 1.
For thought, and not praise,—Thought is the wagesFor which I sell days."Fragments on The Poet," Poems, Appendix.
Page 293, note 2. "Commerce… is an apt illustration of the intellectual quality of the process of creating values, as much as is inventing, planting or manufacturing."—From a sheet of the lecture.
Page 295, note 1. The sentence about Alfred is followed in the lecture by this comment: "Good fortune is another name for perception and good will."
Page 296, note 1. Many an author, especially among Mr. Emerson's friends, was a gainer by "imputed righteousness," to borrow the phrase from the Church. His good will and his teeming mind sometimes read values into their work.
