Page 300, note 3. In the autumn of 1834, immediately after his return from Europe, Mr. Emerson began his new life as a lecturer by giving two lectures before the Society of Natural History in Boston. In the Introductory Lecture he urged the fitness for men of the study of Nature, and the second lecture was "On the Relation of Man to the Globe," calling attention to the relation of use, but also to the relation of beauty.
Page 301, note 1.
Tell men what they knew before;Paint the prospect from their door."Fragments on Life," Poems, Appendix.
Page 302, note 1. Here followed in the lecture the words,—
"The deeper you bore, the farther you get away from the cause."
Page 303, note 1. Compare the quatrain called "Casella" in the Poems.
Page 304, note 1. These thoughts and images occur in "The Over-Soul" (Essays, First Series, p. 293), and in the Poems in "Manners" and the lines in "Saadi":—
Nor scour the seas, nor sift mankind,A poet or a friend to find:Behold, he watches at the door!Behold his shadow on the floor!and in the "Fragments on Life" in the verses beginning
Love asks nought his brother cannot give.
Page 305, note 1. Mr. Sanborn engaged a learned German, Dr. Solger, to give a course of lectures on History at his private school, and Mr. Emerson, with other residents of
