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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Augusta King . (search)
To Miss Augusta King. New York, October 30, 1844.
Emerson has sent me his new volume.
Essays, Second Series. As usual, it is full of deep and original sayings, and touches of exceeding beauty.
But, as usual, it takes away my strength .... What is the use of telling us that everything is scene-painting and counterfeit, that nothing is real, that everything eludes us?
That no single thing in life keeps the promise it makes?
Or, if any keeps it, keeps it like the witches to Macbeth?
Enough of this conviction is forced upon us by experience, without having it echoed in literature.
My being is so alive and earnest that it resists and abhors these ghastly, eluding spectres.
It abhors them and says: Be ye ghosts, and dwell among ghosts.
But though all the world be dead, and resolved into vapory elements, I will live?
Emerson would smile at this; because it shows how deeply I feel the fact I quarrel with.
But after all, if we extend our vision into the regions of faith, all
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Correspondence between Mrs. Child , John Brown , and Governor Wise and Mrs. Mason of Virginia . (search)