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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 2: education (search)
growing friendship, a playful fancy, and a clearing prospect. On May 24th he wrote to Barrett: Now for myself. I am reviewing my Latin and Greek together daily, or rather nightly, which is the only sort of instruction I have had since your absence began. Mr. Hosmer wrote to Professor Felton, of Cambridge, who replied that I need have no fears on the score of admission, 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. But there is certainly a movement going on in philosophy which must produce a revolution in politics, morals, and religion, sooner or later. The tendency of the age is spiritual, and though the immediate reaction of the