but the revelation of God in a personality--a revelation so that
the narrow mind could become opened? But the tendency to over-
personalize personality may also have suggested to Emerson the
necessity for more universal, and impersonal paths, though they
be indefinite of outline and vague of ascent. Could you journey,
with equal benefit, if they were less so? Would you have the
universal always supplemented by the shadow of the personal? If
this view is accepted, and we doubt that it can be by the
majority, Emerson's substance could well bear a supplement,
perhaps an affinity. Something that will support that which some
conceive he does not offer. Something that will help answer Alton
Locke's question: "What has Emerson for the working-man?" and
questions of others who look for the gang-plank before the ship
comes in sight. Something that will supply the definite banister
to the infinite, which it is said he keeps invisible. Something
that will point a crossroad from "his personal" to "his nature."
Something that may be in Thoreau or Wordsworth, or in another
poet whose songs "breathe of a new morning of a higher life
though a definite beauty in Nature"--or something that will show
the birth of his ideal and hold out a background of revealed
religion, as a perspective to his transcendent religion--a
counterpoise in his rebellion--which we feel Channing or Dr.
Bushnell, or other saints known and unknown might supply.

If the arc must be completed--if there are those who would have
the great, dim outlines of Emerson fulfilled, it is fortunate
that there are Bushnells, and Wordsworths, to whom they may
appeal--to say nothing of the Vedas, the Bible, or their own
souls. But such possibilities and conceptions, the deeper they
are received, the more they seem to reduce their need. Emerson's