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Some measure of metaphysic is a sort of aesthetic need in any order of thought, an architectural requirement, if not so much for the strength of the wall, at least for the eye of the beholder. Even natural science, so hostile pure speculation, sketches in metaphysical pattern with lines that are so far from spidery that they are often taken for the finished picture. Still, science stands firmly planted in the foreground of experimental verification, and though it looks twice and again at any datum that seems not to fit into the pattern, it alters the pattern -as it is doing in lively haste todayif the datum stands scrutiny, and never the datum to fit the pattern.

Emerson is in like case. He planted himself at the experimental point at which thought is born, and stood there defender of the mother instinct that seizes it, spanks it into breathing life, and defends it into maturity. He looks

back, indeed, and with a poet's license of fancy and a poet's love of allegory prefigures a universal mind, an OverSoul, a Unity, Life, Force, Sphinx, Brahma, God, as a sort of reservoir from which the separate consciousness draws its thoughts, and in virtue of which it finds them intelligible to the thoughts of others. But the reckless multiplicity of the terms he applies to it, the Protean forms it assumes, indicates how little of the metaphysical

virus was in his veins.

His Transcendentalism was an accident of the Teutonic moment, happy enough as a faint tracery in the nebula behind him. But another metaphysic would have done as well for him, philosophically, though it might not have served the poet in him so kindly. An intelligible organic unity in the nature of things was its essential point, and he found a way of expressing it. But it was not his own center. Compare the concentrated analysis of his metaphysics in Mr. Woodberry's admirable life, and the dilute form of it caught by glimpses in the broad vistas of the essays. The difference absolute and startling.

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I do not mean, however, that his metaphysics is of no significance, and was of no importance to Emerson himself. On the contrary it gave him his large bearings in the enveloping mystery of the universe. And it saved him from one fallacy of his times. It is possible to call him a Transcendentalist. But Transcendentalism pure is to be judged by its fruits, and its egregious fruit the centrifugal egotism of the Romantics. The antagonism is sharp-set between this Romantic egotism and spirit of Emerson's self-reliance. For behind that selfreliance was the centripetal thesis nailed to the foremast of his own barque:

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"There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman to the whole estate. . . . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent."

Here, I think, are the bare bones of the Emersonian metaphysic. By virtue of it he put the intellect into the law of responsible relation to things, and into responsible relation to other minds. He thus rescued himself from the eccentricity and conceit of

romanticism, and by planting himself squarely at the intellectual and moral center of a common humanity, made himself the chief of American humanists.

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HE persistence of Emerson is interesting. American life has gone precisely counter to his dream of it. The contrast is complete. But his repute has steadily grown, in spite of it, or perhaps because of it-in part it may be from nostalgia, a yearning backward to a golden day, a weariness in the heat of the noon hour.

But the explanation goes deeper than that. "Mankind is governed by a few generalizations," Emerson says somewhere, in one of those discrete particles that skirt so near to platitude but which drop seeds in the mind. The generalizations which govern us and give rise to our current ardors and pursuits may seem peculiarly calculated to regiment us, command our conformities, and make us forget, or afraid to face, our individual autonomy. Take at hazard our democracy, our universal education, our natural science, dogmas that at once largely express and deeply affect us. It is possible to make a dire case against them.

Democracy springs from a lively respect and concern for the individual man, and ends by sinking him to a statistic. He becomes one of an anonymous majority, or a no less anonymous minority, and nothing goes but by the conformity of numbers. The bandwagon becomes juggernaut. Universal education becomes universal at the expense of education. Abandoning the one pursuit that is common to all men, self-discovery, it scatters them in pursuit of the diversity of things, the relations of things to things, the technique of manipulating things, and drafts them in the service of ends they are left too naif to question. And natural science, forgetful in the third generation that it is not the universe it contemplates, but is simply human knowlsomeone has edge pursued because found it a good in the moral sense, not man to only shifts attention from things but comes to look upon man himself as a thing, and subject to the law of things.

If this is a grotesque and partial view of the causes, the herd effect is the commonplace of the moment. And I was about to say that the worm is turning, or at least squirming; that the forgotten man, yawning in the boredom

of neglect, or rebellious at prolonged slight, is lifting his head and finding in Emerson a reminder of his birthright.

But I should be doing Emerson a wrong. The strength of his position is better founded. It is due no more to the conspiracy of special circumstance than to the logic of a special metaphysic. He put his finger upon the irony latent not especially in these but in all governing generalizations-the more valid the more ironic that they tend in the very measure of their commanding truth to wean their inheritors from their own essential virtue. "Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books."

Emerson left many things unsaid, indeed. Disciplined himself in a long intellectual tradition, he made little in his message of the discipline without which the intellect itself is a raw recruit of the mind. He made light of all the weaknesses of man. This is, perhaps, his organic defect.

But it

is hard to cavil at him for addressing himself to men's strength. He is easy to caricature. The gist of his didactic might be summed up in the phrase: How to be a genius. If what we know as genius, however, is not the ipse dixit of genius itself, but the recognition on our part of the intelligible significance of what genius has thought, it is but ill sport to smile at the champion of it. Whoever smiles at Emerson, howHe ever, has been long forestalled. was not naif, not a rapt prophet helpless before the flame of a burning idea. He had his returns upon himself which, if not quite humor in the infectious sense, were the intellectual equivalent of it. In the heyday of his career, for example, he could say obviously of himself:

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"Because our education is defective, because we are superficial and ill-read, we are forced to make the most of that position, of ignorance. America is a vast know-nothing party, and disparage books and cry up intuition. With a few clever men we have made a reputable thing of that, and denouncing libraries and severe culture, and magnifying the mother-wit swagger of bright boys from the country colleges, we have even come so far as to deceive everybody, except ourselves, into

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but with few is it so needful to read widely to feel the full depth of the pile in which he tied the pattern of his thought, or detect in the lively tracery of it the clue to the simple figure which it repeats in endless

variety.

He solved one riddle of the sphinxwhose secrets are forever open secretsby seeing that the seat of our human community is also the seat of our human individuality that the intellect is at the same time the one point upon which we come together in mutual understanding and the one point of entry, in the lonely separate mind, of all that is humanly intelligible. And he raised his voice in lifelong reminder of the perennial peril lest in the ease and safety of the communities already established, the only source of more and other thought, the play of the essential human virtue, the Man Thinking, should be forgotten. Time has not dimmed the pertinence of his message.

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when the dog thought he smelt a rabbit. By gum, it was a rabbit! By golly, he was after him!

If he could catch that rabbit nowif he only had a gun-.

The rabbit went like a streak of gray lightning. The hungry dog was fairly turning somersaults on himself. The rabbit turned sharp left, the dog after him-then unexpectedly-right. Now where had that doggone creature disappeared to?

The man hurried as fast as he could, for it was plain to be seen that his dog needed help and encouragement. He was scratching violently at the stump of an old tree. The rabbit was out of sight. The panting man reached the side of the dog and began to lend a hand. This rabbit was sent from heaven and wasn't meant to escape. If the two of them together couldn't get him out, why, they didn't deserve to eat him nohow.

Handful after handful of dead leaves and ancient mold, and-hello, what was this? The rusted top of an old copper kettle. Whoever left a tea kettle in the stump of a tree? The man reached in again with an inquiring hand which closed on something even more surprising. It felt like an old rusty piece of metal-he brought it to the light and peered at it; then he rubbed it on his worn breeches and cleaned it with earth. Eager and trembling, he

looked at it closely by the light of the blue sky. The date upon it was 1858. It was a silver dollar. He put his hand into the stump again, his two hands. He tugged and wrenched and pulled. There it was a huge old copper kettle. So heavy, he could scarcely lift it by himself. Full up to the brim of those same round pieces of metal.

The old man who believed that God rewarded the righteous, had forgotten that rabbits or hunger ever existed. Staggering under the weight of his heavy kettle, he could get no further than the underbrush. Here he covered his find and set off in search of a friend, the puzzled and reluctant dog at his heels.

Hours later, in the bare hut, the two friends finished their laborious task of cleaning all of the metal. There were eigteen hundred pieces, three quarters of a century old.

The friend looked up, fearful and fascinated. "Was it robbers, do you suppose," he asked in a hushed voice, "or some old miser?"

But the finder of the treasure shook his head. He had only one answer. "It was the Lord."

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