Excerpt from Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Autocrat and His Fellow-Boarders Dr. Holmes said of Emerson: He delineates himself so perfectly in his various writings that the careful reader sees his nature just as it was' in all its essentials, and has little more to learn than those human accidents which individual ize him in time and space.

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