"God makes but one man of each kind; one leaf, one blade of grass, one meridian, does not resemble another."
Page 201, note 2. "Memory is the mother of the Muses," in the lecture, is omitted here.
Page 202, note 1. Compare the lines in the poem "Worship":—
More near than aught thou call'st thy own,Yet, greeted in another's eyes,Disconcerts with glad surprise.
Page 202, note 2. Between these paragraphs may have stood this stray sheet:—
"The severe ideal rule is that a wise man will write nothing but that which is known only to himself, and that he will not produce his truth until it is imperatively demanded by the progress of the conversation, which has arrived at that point. Then is the shrine ready and the pedestal; he produces his statue, and it fills the eye."
Page 203, note 1. Dr. Holmes, in several places in his Life of Emerson, has much that is interesting to say about his quotations, which he says "are like the miraculous draught of fishes;" and he has been at the pains to count the named references, chiefly to authors, and found them to be three thousand three hundred and ninety-three, relating to eight hundred and sixty-eight different individuals. He also gives a list of those to whom there are twenty or more references.
He also says that this essay "furnishes a key to Emerson's workshop. He believed in quotation, and borrowed from everybody and every book. Not in any stealthy or shamefaced way, but proudly, as a king borrows from one of his attendants the coin that bears his own image and superscription."
