Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... JOURNAL XXIII 1832 From O (Blotting Book III) * and Q THE GOOD EAR (From 12) Boston, January 4, 1832. More is understood than is expressed in the most diffuse discourse. It is the unsaid part of every lecture that does the most good. If my poor Tuesday evening lectures (horresco referens) were to any auditor the total of his exposition of Christianity, what a beggarly faith were it. "Death," said you? We die daily. "Death," -- the soul never dies. Theory of agreeable and disagreeable people, alluded to by George Bradford,1 that reflecting 1 George Partridge Bradford of Duxbury was, like his sister Sarah Alden, wife of Rev. Samuel Ripley of Waltham, through life a close friend of Mr. Emerson. Mr. Bradford was affectionate, refined, a born scholar and a lover of flowers. He prepared himself for the ministry, but was so modest and sensitive that he found himself unfitted for its public offices. He i83i] PLAN FOR A BOOK 445 and self-improving minds are not agreeable company, but that indolent and deceitful, rather. January 6. Shall I not write a book on topics such as follow? -- Chapter 1. That the mind is its own place; Chapter 1. That exact justice is done; Chapter 3. That good motives are at the bottom of (many) bad actions; e. g. Business before friends; Chapter 4. That the soul is immortal; Chapter 5. On prayers; Chapter 6. That the best is the true; Chapter 7. That the mind discerns all things; Chapter 8. That the mind seeks itself in all things. Chapter 9. That truth is its own warrant. [Charles?] Sprague, [Rev.MellishL] Motte, [Edward] Wigglesworth, [Charles H., later Admiral?] Davis, [George P.] Bradford, [?] Willis, [Rev. George] Ripley, [?] Henry, was a loyal member of the Brook Farm Community, and after its breaking up, became a...
