SOME UNPUBLISHED LETTERS
OF HENRY D. AND
SOPHIA E. THOREAU.
I.
THE FROUDE EPISODE.
HOW strangely human lives are interlinked: the chain of influences beginning and ending how little we know where and when. At the first reading of Emerson's Each and All, who is not startled by the lines—
Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed hath lent.
Is not that enquiry a 'flash-light' for the soul?
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