Sublime

Everything about her was bold, vigorous, extravagant. She advised the Emerson boys: “Always do what you are afraid to do.” Her

His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we’ve outgrown our wonder years.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.

elle est écrivaine, naturaliste, intelligente et sensible, et quand ce jeune homme sorti de sa ferme est arrivé à l’université, elle a tout de suite compris ses extraordinaires dons intellectuels. Elle l’a soutenu, encouragé, lui a fait profiter de ses relations, et John lui a toute sa vie écrit de longues lettres qu’il adresse à Madame Ezra Carr e

She thought of him as a source of knowledge rather than experience; a good, though not contemporary mind, a person rather than a man.