Part 25

His errors of opinion are as nothing in comparison with this merit, in my judgment. This _aplomb_ cannot be mimicked; it is the speaking to the heart of the thing. And in England, where the _morgue_ of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society,--a very few houses only in the high circles being ever opened to them,--he has carried himself erect, made himself a power confessed by all men, and taught scholars their lofty duty. He never feared the face of man.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 17: From a letter written soon after Mr. Emerson’s visit to Carlyle in 1848. Read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at their meeting after the death of Carlyle, February, 1881. Published in their Proceedings, and also in “Scribner’s Magazine,” May, 1881.]

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