...will be disappointed in Emerson if you look for these things in him. Emerson says Mr. Arnold, is " the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit," and he is that in treating even of such a subject as history. He sees more deeply into the spiritual...

...as another companion of Swift, take that great American of the nineteenth century whom Arnold called "the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit" and whom Ex-President Eliot, of Harvard, would place among the few great thinkers of the world, Ralph...

...friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." This was Emerson's chief merit ano* service: he was the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. The secret of his influence was not in his thought; it was in his temper, his unfaltering spirit of...

...friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." This was Emerson's chief merit and service: he was the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. The secret of his influence was not in his thought; it was in his temper, his unfaltering spirit of...

...friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." This was Emerson's chief merit and service: he was the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. The secret of his influence was not in his thought; it was in his temper, his unfaltering spirit of...

...friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." This was Emerson's chief merit and service: he was the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. The secret of his influence was not in his thought; it was in his temper, his unfaltering spirit of...

...a system of philosophy. What, then, was his merit ? He was to be classed with Marcus Aurelius, who was "the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." This was Emerson's chief merit and service: he was the friend and aider of those who would live in...

...rationally organized and open to advancing truth, because it is, and may be vastly more than it now is, the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. But I go farther than this. I have another and still deeper reason for my belief that religious institutions...

...blank-verse autobiography. And so we might go on, page to page, in company with the true poet. If " the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit" is always present, the poet is often beside him. Only the poet can " The bird-language rightly spell,...

...sect whose adherents should perpetuate his fame, but he is, as Matthew Arnold has beautifully said, " the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit," and his influence upon the thought of the last half century has been paramount. His intellectual serenity...