...recollection of all this, of all that I have thought and felt, than any book that can now be published." 1866 : " Last night, in the conversation, Alcott appeared...superiority. As pure intellect, I have never seen his equal." Mr. Cabot, in his " Memoir," says that " Mr. Alcott visited Concord in 1835, and in 1840 came to live...

...vulgar reformers rely on the arm of money and the law." A little later Emerson again wrote : — " Last night in the conversation Alcott appeared to...people with whom he talks do not ever understand him. . . . Yesterday Alcott left me, after three days spent here. I had lain down a man and had waked up...

...the most extraordinary man and the highest genius of the time. * * * Wonderful is his vision. * * * Last night in the conversation, Alcott appeared to...superiority. As pure intellect I have never seen his equal. * * * Alcott is a ray of the oldest light. They say the light of some stars that parted from the orb...

...vulgar reformers rely on the arm of money and the law." A little later Emerson again wrote : — " Last night in the conversation Alcott appeared to...singular superiority. As pure intellect I have never aeen his equal. The people with whom he talks do not ever understand him. . . . Yesterday Alcott left...

...contemporaries were equally mystified, and that even so subtle a thinker as Emerson wrote of his friend, "As pure intellect, I have never seen his equal. The...people with whom he talks do not ever understand him." Not the least interesting feature in this sketch of New England growth is the story of the Brook Farm...

...namely, a pure will, pure and illumined. August 12. Last night, in conversation with the New York ladies, Alcott appeared to great advantage, and I saw again,...seen his equal. The people with whom he talks do not even understand him. They interrupt him with clamorous dissent, or what they think verbal endorsement...

...namely, a pure will, pure and illumined. August 12. Last night, in conversation with the New York ladies, Alcott appeared to great advantage, and I saw again,...have / never seen his equal. The people with whom 1 he talks do not even understand him. They interrupt him with clamorous dissent, or what they think...

...dilapidated Platonist with portentous seriousness. For instance, he observes in his Journal for 1857: Last night in the conversation Alcott appeared to...people with whom he talks do not ever understand him ; ... do not know that all they have in their baby brains is incoherent and spotty; that all he sees...

...dilapidated Platonist with portentous seriousness. For instance, he observes in his Journal for 1857: Last night in the conversation Alcott appeared to...people with whom he talks do not ever understand him ; ... do not know that all they have in their baby brains is incoherent and spotty; that all he sees...

...powers, only that Universal Spirit which Bronson understood better than the rest of us, could say : 12 Last night in the conversation, Alcott appeared to...before, his singular superiority. As pure intellect, I never have seen his equal. The people interrupt him with " Do you know, Mr. Alcott, I think thus and...