looks now all-sufficient, but in high and happy conversation, it shrinks away to poor experimenting."
Page 275, note 1. From the Phaedrus.
Page 275, note 2. Zertusht is another name for Zoroaster.
Page 276, note 1. The essay "Eloquence," in Society and Solitude, opens with a statement of the difference in capacity of heat in men of different temperaments. Mr. Emerson often mentioned in his journals his own lack in this respect and in animal spirits, though he found compensations. His "beds of ignited anthracite," which he speaks of as necessary for transcendent eloquence, lay very deep. But he had a sun-heat about him more powerful than he knew, the heat which comes from sincerity that he speaks of in the essay on Eloquence in this volume.
Page 277, note 1. The poet here spoken of was probably Jones Very.
Page 278, note 1. "Not every Day fit for Verse," Robert Herrick.
Page 279, note 1. In Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel are lines resembling these:—
"Great wits are sure to madness near allied,And thin partitions do their bounds divide."
Page 279, note 2. On a stray sheet of the lecture these words here followed: "Law of that! to know the law of that, and to live in it! O thought too wild! O hope too good!….
"Power, new power is the good which the soul seeks. No matter if it be not yet formed into a talent. New power suggests vast hopes, native to the mind: sets it on experimenting; brings it into creative moods."
Page 280, note 1. The first verse of the poem "Waldeinsamkeit"
