...is interesting to notice that Alcott, while staying first in Concord, complained of lack of simplicity in A--, B--, C--, and D--(late visitors from the city). Emerson said approvingly to his son : Alcott is right touchstone to test them, litmus to detect the acid. We cannot doubt that such a man's own judgment was absolutely simple; and such was clearly the opinion held by Emerson, who, indeed, ...