It seems no longer worth living in, if whatever delights us in it departs.

He has quitted forever the apparent, the partial.

He has gone to make acquaintance with the real, the good, the divine, and to find mates and co-operators such as we could not offer him." Charles Emerson entered with zeal and sympathy into the daily life of the people of Concord.

He delivered a few lectures, which were quite celebrated.

Some of his manuscripts are in existence, and there is a boyish essay or two in the _Harvard Magazine,_ one on Conversation and one on Friendship, which show a singular charm and simplicity of style.