(12)Mrs. Mathews' 'Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews,' (Ed.
1860) p. 232.
(13) Archbishop Whately's 'Commonplace Book.'
(14) Emerson is said to have had Nathaniel Hawthorne in his mind when
writing the following passage in his 'Society and Solitude:'--
"The most agreeable compliment you could pay him was, to imply
that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had
met him. Whilst he suffered at being seen where he was, he
consoled himself with the delicious thought of the inconceivable
number of places where he was not. All he wished of his tailor
was to provide that sober mean of colour and cut which would never
detain the eye for a moment.... He had a remorse, running to
despair, of his social GAUCHERIES, and walked miles and miles to
get the twitchings out of his face, and the starts and shrugs out
of his arms and shoulders. 'God may forgive sins,' he said, 'but
awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.'"
(15) In a series of clever articles in the REVUE DES DEUX MONDES,
entitled, 'Six mille Lieues a toute Vapeur,' giving a description
of his travels in North America, Maurice Sand keenly observed the
comparatively anti-social proclivities of the American compared
with the Frenchman. The one, he says, is inspired by the spirit
of individuality, the other by the spirit of society. In America
he sees the individual absorbing society; as in France he sees
society absorbing the individual.
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