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The variety of stock-elements and tongues, to be resolutely fused in a common identity and union at all hazards the idea, perennial through the ages, that they both have their historic and divine mission the fervent element of manly friendship throughout the whole people, surpass'd by no other races the grand expanse of territorial limits and boundaries the unform'd and nebulous state of many things, not yet permanently settled, but agreed on all hands to be the preparations of an infinitely greater future the fact that both Peoples have their independent and leading positions to hold, keep, and if necessary, fight for, against the rest of the world the deathless aspirations at the inmost centre of each great community, so vehement, so mysterious, so abysmic are certainly features you Russians and we Americans possess in common.
Feudal at the core, and mental offspring and radiation of feudalism as are his books, they afford ever-valuable lessons and affinities to democratic America. Nations or individuals, we surely learn deepest from unlikeness, from a sincere opponent, from the light thrown even scornfully on dangerous spots and liabilities. His words at times bubble forth with abysmic inspiration.
But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for. For a philosopher, Emerson possesses a singularly dandified theory of manners.
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