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New England, making friends everywhere, and receiving numerous calls without, however, settling down to a fixed habitation.
This would seem to have been a peculiarity of his temperament; for in 1875 George William Curtis wrote to Mr.Cranch and Mrs. Cranch a letter which began with “O ye Bedouins” ; and it is true that until that time he can hardly be said to have had a habitation of his own. He extended his migration as minister-at-large from Bangor, Maine, to Louisville, Kentucky.
His varied accomplishments made him attractive to the younger members of the parishes for which he preached, but he never remained long enough in one place for their interest to take root.
The wave of German thought and literary interest was now sweeping over England and America.
Repelled by doctors of divinity and the older class of scholars, it was seized upon with avidity by the more susceptible natures of the younger generation.
Its influence was destined to be felt all through the coming period of American literature.
C. P. Cranch was affected by it, as Emerson, Longfellow and even Hawthorne, were affected by it. This, however, did not take place at once, and when Emerson's “Nature” was published, Cranch was at first repelled by the peculiarity of its style.
At the house of Rev. James Freeman Clark, in Cincinnati, he drew some innocently satirical illustrations
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