...h his long, lean face and figure, with his grey worn temples and mild radiant eyes; all bent on saving the world by a return to acorns and the golden age; he comes before one like a kind of venerable Don Quixote , whom nobody can even laugh at without loving. But Emerson probably came nearer than anyone else to doing justice to both sides of Alcott's nature when he called his friend a tedious archangel. ...