The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and social aims [Vol. 8]

they meet, and continues:] Chez le savant, par exemple, l'étude patiente et régulière des faits n'exclut point l'usage des facultés créatrices de l'esprit. Bien au contraire, cette étude ne sauvait conduire à rien sans une certaine dose de l'intuition et, pour ainsi dire, de divination qui, dans un fait des plus vulgaires, fait entrevoir des merveilleuses conséquences. [He instances Newton and Galileo.] Et cependant avant ces grands hommes bien des gens avaient vu fruits tomber des branches, et des lampes se balancer au voutes des églises. Qu'avait-il donc manqué pour transformer ces faites vulgaires en grandes découvertes? Rien d'autre que cette faculté creéatrice qui est le propre du génie, quel que soit le domaine où se manifeste son activité.

"Il ne faut pas confondre, en effet, la science que se crée et la science toute faite. Le raisonnement et la déduction supposent toujours un point de départ qui est une idée neuve."

Page 223, note 2. "Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in everywhere."—"The Preacher," Lectures and Biographical Sketches.

Page 223, note 3. There is much about the importance of sensibility, impressionability, in the latter portion of "Success," in Society and Solitude.

Page 223, note 4. This suggests the image of

Little man, least of all,Among the legs of his guardians tall,—
in the poem, "Experience," the motto to the essay of that name.

Page 225; note 1.

A score of airy miles will smoothRough Monadnoc to a gem."Fragments on Nature," Poems, Appendix.

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The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and social aims [Vol. 8]
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