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221   Genius and Talent 222   Invention and Discovery 223   Town and Country 226 VII.   Day by Day 230 VIII.   Gleanings 250 IX.   Sundown Papers: 264   Re-reading Bergson 264   Revisions 266   Bergson and Telepathy 267   Meteoric Men and Planetary Men 270   The Daily Papers 272   The Alphabet 275   The Reds of Literature 276   The Evolution of Evolution 279   Following One's Bent 280   Notes on the Psychology of Old Age 281   Facing the Mystery 285   Index 291

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THE LAST HARVEST

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EMERSON AND HIS JOURNALS

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Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world. His Journals, published over a quarter of a century after his death, nearly or quite double the bulk of his writing, and while they do not rank in literary worth with his earlier works, they yet throw much light upon his life and character and it is a pleasure to me, in these dark and troublesome times,