And whatever glows or seemsInto substance, into Law."Fragments on the Poet," Poems, Appendix.
Page 20, note 1. The philosophy of Xenophanes, "one in all," appears constantly in the essays. See a passage in "Plato," in Representative Men: "The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough and the furrow are of one stuff; and the stuff is such and so much that the variations of form are unimportant."
Page 21, note 1.
Love me then and only, when you knowMe for the channel of the rivers of GodFrom deep ideal fontal heavens that flow."Fragments on Life," Poems, Appendix.
A passage from the earlier lecture may here be introduced:
"Show us what you will, and we are agitated with dim sentiments that we already know somewhat of this; somewhere, sometime, some eternity, we have played this game before, and have still retained some vague memory of the thing, which, though not sufficient to furnish us an account of it, yet enables us to understand it better, now that we are here."
Page 23, note 1. In Mr. Cabot's Memoir, and also in the biographical sketch of Mr. Emerson in the first volume of this edition, some account is given of his visit, in 1833, to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris and its remarkable influence on his thought.
This passage in the lecture about the visits to museums is thus continued by Mr. Emerson on the influence of the stars, always felt by him:—
"Neither can a tender soul stand [under] the starry heaven and explore the solar and stellar bodies and arrangements without
