The Maryport Advertiser May 5, 1882 Ralph Waldo EMERSON

Ralph Waldo EMERSON

The Maryport Advertiser - May 5, 1882

RALPH WALDO EMERSON. ______  Another great man of letters has been taken from the people of America. The long travail of Ralph Waldo EMERSON came to an end on Thursday week.    For several years his life has been, by reason of his infirmities, one of weakness and pain, and yet it had not been an unhappy life. The great thinker, who had found time, even when our transatlantic kinsmen were in the darkest days of Philistinism, to ponder deeply over problems which had nothing whatever to do with the almighty dollar, though a great deal to do with the worshipers of that same dollar, had long been recognised as a prophet in his own country, as well as elsewhere.    In the school of Philosophy at Concord, close by his own modest dwelling, he was privileged, down to a few months ago, to sit and hear many wise and worthy men debating together over truths which he himself had given the world; and among his own people he seemed to be regarded with a reverence which was of itself a proof that the seed he had sown had not fallen upon barren ground.    One of the very few Americans who have made themselves names in philosophy, he will long be borne in remembrance, not alone for his great works, but for his pure simple life. Those who saw him the other day standing beside the open grave of LONGFELLOW, knew that it could not be long before he went to his last resting place. Few, however, can have been prepared for the suddenness of the event which they then anticipated.

 

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