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* This worthy man and lover of good books was, from 1842 till his
death in 1863, Professor in the Divinity School of Harvard
University.
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Thanks for the letter:  thanks for your friendliest seeking of friends for the poor Oration. Poor little pamphlet, to have gone so far and so high!  I am ashamed.  I shall however send you a couple more of the thin gentry presently, maugre all your hopes and cautions.  I have written and read a kind of sermon to the Senior Class of our Cambridge Theological School a fortnight ago; and an address to the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College;* for though I hate American pleniloquence, I cannot easily say No to young men who bid me speak also.  And both these are now in press.  The first I hear is very offensive.  I will now try to hold my tongue until next winter.  But I am asked continually when you will come to Boston.  Your lectures are boldly and joyfully expected by brave young men.  So do not forget us:  and if ever the scale-beam trembles, I beseech you, let the love of me decide for America.  I will not dare to tease you on a matter of so many relations, and so important, and especially as I have written out, I believe, my requests in a letter sent two or three months ago,—­but I must see you somewhere, somehow, may it please God!  I grieve to hear no better news of your wife.  I hoped she was sound and strong ere this, and can only hope still.  My wife and I send her our hearty love.

Yours affectionately,
                   R.W.  Emerson

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* The Address at the Cambridge Divinity School was delivered on
the 15th of July, and that at Dartmouth College on the 24th of
the same month.   The title of the latter was “Literary Ethics.” 
Both are reprinted in Emerson’s Miscellanies.  These remarkable
discourses excited deep interest and wide attention.   They
established Emerson’s position as the leader of what was known as
the Transcendental movement.   They were the expressions of his
inmost convictions and his matured thought.   The Address at the
Divinity School gave rise to a storm of controversy which did not
disturb the serenity of its author.   “It was,” said Theodore
Parker, “the noblest, the most inspiring strain I ever listened
to.”   To others it seemed “neither good divinity nor good sense.” 
The Address at Dartmouth College set forth the high ideals of
intellectual life with an eloquence made irresistible by the
character of the speaker.   From this time Emerson’s influence
upon thought in America was acknowledged.
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XXVII.  Carlyle to Emerson

Scotsbrig, Ecclefechan, (Annandale, Scotland) 25 September, 1838