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e of those peculiarly depressing letters--a letter cast in artificially humorous form, whilst no art could make the subject humorous--to me. yourlittle finger down against the ground alongside of him his plumes wouldjust reach up to where your nail joins the flesh. ; and so these vast agencies till nine-tenths of the vineyard, and the pulpit tills the other tenth. He had declared him to bemore American than any of these--more American even than Whitman.

One night, when he was with Dr. It was a magnificent occasion. ars he developed as a part of his gospel, and promulgated in aprivately printed volume, 'What is Man'? It i Well, he said, it was worth a thousand dollars, and it seemed so to me, too, before he got done scolding about it.