Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1832

January

1. 7 January 1832

   There is a process in the mind very analogous to crystallization in the mineral kingdom. I think of a particular fact of singular beauty and inter- est. In thinking…

2. 9 January 1832

   I cannot help quoting from Mendelssohn's Phado the following ruk, "All that which, be- ing admitted as true, would procure the human race a real advantage or a…