
The scope and spirit of your paper on Democracy delight
and satisfy me beyond all expectation, and I write without compliment or reserve to
The Man, The American Columbus, whose
sagacity has thus sounded
adventurously the sea of our Social Chaos and anchored his thought securely in soil
of the newly discovered Atlantides about which Grecian Plato
died Dreaming. Especially have I to thank you for dialing such doughty thrusts into
the sides of the British Behemoth sending him bottomwards. All
you say of the Imperial West is strong and is.
I talked last evening with
Emerson about your strong strokes at the thoughtless
literature and Godless faith of this East—nothing as yet to show of original
type—wholly null and empty of ideas—only Thoreau to
redeem it from idiocy and fatuity.
That dutiful drill of yours, too, in Humanity during the dread struggle of these
last years gives to your
thought a sanction and potency which Universities cannot claim nor confer