the soul and its union with God!

Let us place the transcendent Emerson where he, himself, places
Milton, in Wordsworth's apostrophe: "Pure as the naked heavens,
majestic, free, so didst thou travel on life's common way in
cheerful Godliness."

The Godliness of spiritual courage and hopefulness--these fathers
of faith rise to a glorified peace in the depth of his greater
perorations. There is an "oracle" at the beginning of the Fifth
Symphony--in those four notes lies one of Beethoven's greatest
messages. We would place its translation above the relentlessness
of fate knocking at the door, above the greater human-message of
destiny, and strive to bring it towards the spiritual message of
Emerson's revelations--even to the "common heart" of Concord--the
Soul of humanity knocking at the door of the Divine mysteries,
radiant in the faith that it will be opened--and the human become
the Divine!


III--Hawthorne


The substance of Hawthorne is so dripping wet with the
supernatural, the phantasmal, the mystical--so surcharged with
adventures, from the deeper picturesque to the illusive
fantastic, one unconsciously finds oneself thinking of him as a
poet of greater imaginative impulse than Emerson or Thoreau. He
was not a greater poet possibly than they--but a greater artist.
Not only the character of his substance, but the care in his