to know the vast resources of the continent; the good will that is in the people; their conviction of the great moral advantages of freedom, social equality, education and religious culture, and their determination to hold these fast, and by these hold fast the Country, and penetrate every square inch of it with this American civilization.... “Americans—not girded by the iron belt of condition, not taught by society and institutions to magnify trifles, not victims of technical logic, but docile to the logic of events; not, like English, worshippers of fate; with no hereditary upper house, but with legal, popular assemblies, which constitute a perpetual insurrection, and by making it perpetual save us from revolutions.” FOOTNOTES [A] Mr. Emerson believed the “not” had been accidentally omitted, and it can hardly be questioned that he was right in his supposition. [B] Vol. ii., pp. 424-433. [C] _The Genius and Character of Emerson; Lectures at the Concord School of Philosophy_, edited by F. B. Sanborn. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1885. [D] _Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson_, vol. i., pp. 260, 261. [E] _Epistle of Paul to Philemon_, i. 16, 17. [F] See the report of this speech in Redpath’s _Life of Captain John Brown_. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860. [G] “Review of Holmes’s Life of Emerson,” _North American Review_, February, 1885. [H] _Richard Henry Dana; a Biography._ By Charles Francis Adams. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890. In chapter viii. of this book is a very remarkable account of John Brown and his family at their home at North Elba in 1849, when Mr. Dana and a friend, lost in the Adirondac woods, chanced to come out upon the Brown clearing and were kindly received and aided. [I] While waiting for the services to begin, Mr. Sears wrote some verses. The following lines, which Mrs. Emerson saw him write, were a prophecy literally fulfilled within three years by the Union armies singing the John Brown song:— “But not a pit six feet by two Can hold a man like thee; John Brown shall tramp the shaking earth From Blue Ridge to the sea.” [J] In the very interesting work _The Influence of Emerson_, published in Boston in 1903, by the American Unitarian Association. [K] See note 3 to page 63 of the “Historical Discourse.” [L] “Emerson’s Relation to Society,” in _The Genius and Character of Emerson_, Lectures at the Concord School of Philosophy, edited by F. B. Sanborn. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co., 1885.