Page 272, note 1. Mr. Emerson wrote in one of the journals, "When a god wishes to ride, any stick or straw will serve him for a horse," apparently from Pindar's verse:—
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉quoted by Plutarch and rendered by the early translator—
"Were it the will of Heaven, an osier boughWere vessel safe enough the seas to plough."
Page 272, note 2. In several places in his writings Mr. Emerson speaks of thoughts, or of God, entering the mind by passages which the individual never left open.
Page 273, note 1.
"Day and night their turn observe,But the day of day may swerve,Is there warrant that the wavesOf thought in their mysterious cavesWill heap in me their highest tide,In me therewith beatified?Unsure the ebb and flood of thought,The moon comes back,—the Spirit not.""The Poet," Poems, Appendix.
Page 273, note 2. From a stray manuscript sheet:—
"Fluxional quantities. Fluxions, I believe, treat of flowing numbers, as, for example, the path through space of a point on the rim of a cart-wheel. Flowing or varying. Most of my values are very variable. My estimate of America, which sometimes runs very low, sometimes to ideal prophetic proportions. My estimate of my own mental means and resources is all or nothing: in happy hours, life looking infinitely rich; and sterile at others. My value of my club is as elastic as steam or gunpowder, so great now, so little anon. Literature
