We may talk intellectually together, and remark, and reply, and remark again." We give the reader from the diary the following estimate of a transcendentalist, mainly to serve as a background for the picture which Isaac Hecker drew of his own mind in the succeeding pages: "June 14 .-- A transcendentalist is one who has keen sight but little warmth of heart; who has fine conceits but is destitute of the rich glow of love.

He is _en rapport_ with the spiritual world, unconscious of the celestial one.

He is all nerve and no blood--colorless.

He talks of self-reliance, but fears to trust himself to love.

He never abandons himself to love, but is always on the lookout for some new fact.