Show RALPH WALDO WALDO EMERSON I r P IN MANY MANT SECTIONS SE of t the be United States the tile hundredth anniversary of ot the birth of a man who was described by Walt WaIt Whitman as the truest true t sanest s nest most store moral sweetest literary man on record will win be cel cei celebrated ted tad The man man was Ralph Waldo Emerson poet and p 1 And the tribute paid him by his brother poet wa was thoroughly deserved de Do you ou knew Emer Emerson on deserved a good deal of ot credit for just ju t living out his long life Ufe For practically years from 1831 1131 to his death in 1888 he was more or less lessan lessan lessan an invalid Whet n the world was just opening for him bim his bis health gave gaTe way under uDder the strain of or long Jong study aud he hewatt wo watt forced to go P to Europe in search of strength The trip restored him somewhat but Be he was never a astro strong g man although he pealed passed pa ed the span by several everal years ye rs Emerson is ia better known Jm wn as a 8 philosopher than as a poet although much of his poetical is J of f so high a standard dard that few American poets or poets of any aay na nation nation tion have ever approached it J philosophy lo ophy will be remembered re remembered remembered though w his s po s have been forgotten for the philosophy of ot was the kind that counts Let us take for tor example an act extract front from his hie essay on o ory foe such as A foolish consistency e n l tency is the hob hobgoblin hobgoblin hobgoblin goblin of t t little minds adored by bR little statesmen and philosophers and divines f That is Ia Suet Just another way fay of g that t at wise men change chan e their minds but fools never And how bow much bet better better better ter Emerson Ern says say it Agate Agin Nothing great was ever evEll I achieved without enthusiasm enthusiasm l and Ufe Lle is not so s short t but that there is always time enough for courtesy and The manly part te l to do with might sight and main what you yen youcan can do But Bat epigrams from Emerson can be multiplied endlessly endle lT There Then is J a deal of or comfort for struggling writers In Inthe Inthe inthe the recollection that his k Nature Mature one ODe of the tile best beat known j jot of ot all his hJ works wora was w public for 01 thirteen tl l DYda years before 59 copies eople of it had beer soM It has bas been said of him that no DO other outer American author o of note te was as ever I forced to wait walt so 80 long JoDI for an audience Emerson too was was i imore more than neglected n He was even abu abused by some of late his contemporaries as for Instance lD tance John Quincy Adams the lifelong friend of Emersons father who said of or Ralph After falling failing in the everyday vocations of or a Unitarian preacher and schoolmaster he starts a new doctrine of ot transcendentalism declares all the old revelations super superannuated superannuated sad and worn out and announces the approach of new revelations But the criticism of ot Adams and of ot others was wu more than compensated for by this fils tribute from Richard Garnett who wrote More than any y outer other of ot the great writers of the age he is 18 s a voice He is almost t Impersonal He Is pure from the taint of sect clique or party He does doe not argue but announces CM he Je speaks ks when w n the spirit moves him but not longer He helps s us to understand the enigma eB how Con Confucius and Buddha and Socrates and aDd greater teachers te still should have aye produced such marvelous effects by mare m e oral oralu utterance H |