...ion, as, under the circumstances, I might be allowed to make up deficiencies while going on with the class. On January 16, 1840, after he had been at Cambridge nearly a half-year, Dana wrote to Dr. Flint : For my part, I am in the focus of what Professor Felton calls supersublimated transcendentalism, and to tell the truth, I take to it rather kindly though I stumble sadly at some notions. B...