[A] Mr. Emerson believed the “not” had been accidentally omitted, and it
can hardly be questioned that he was right in his supposition.
[B] Vol. ii., pp. 424-433.
[C] _The Genius and Character of Emerson; Lectures at the Concord School
of Philosophy_, edited by F. B. Sanborn. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.,
1885.
[D] _Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson_, vol. i., pp. 260, 261.
[E] _Epistle of Paul to Philemon_, i. 16, 17.
[F] See the report of this speech in Redpath’s _Life of Captain John
Brown_. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860.
[G] “Review of Holmes’s Life of Emerson,” _North American Review_,
February, 1885.
[H] _Richard Henry Dana; a Biography._ By Charles Francis Adams.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890. In chapter viii. of this book is a very
remarkable account of John Brown and his family at their home at North
Elba in 1849, when Mr. Dana and a friend, lost in the Adirondac woods,
chanced to come out upon the Brown clearing and were kindly received and
aided.
[I] While waiting for the services to begin, Mr. Sears wrote some verses.
The following lines, which Mrs. Emerson saw him write, were a prophecy
literally fulfilled within three years by the Union armies singing the
John Brown song:—
“But not a pit six feet by two
Can hold a man like thee;
John Brown shall tramp the shaking earth
From Blue Ridge to the sea.”
[J] In the very interesting work _The Influence of Emerson_, published in
Boston in 1903, by the American Unitarian Association.
[K] See note 3 to page 63 of the “Historical Discourse.”
[L] “Emerson’s Relation to Society,” in _The Genius and Character of
Emerson_, Lectures at the Concord School of Philosophy, edited by F. B.
Sanborn. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co., 1885.