... be the high literary name of this age. No one up to that time, probably, had uttered an opinion of Emerson quite so prophetic as this; it was not until four years later, in 1841, that even Carlyle received the first volume of Emerson's Essays and said, It is once more the voice of a man. Yet from that moment Alcott and Emerson became united, however inadequate their twinship might have se...