to _be in no haste._ Slow fire does make sweet malt: how
true, how true! Also his next work ought to be a _concrete_
thing; not _theory_ any longer, but _deed._ Let him "live it,"
as he says; that is the way to come to "painting of it."
Geometry and the art of Design being once well over, take the
brush, and _andar con Dios!_

Mrs. Child has sent me a Book, _Philothea,_ and a most
magnanimous epistle. I have answered as I could. The Book is
beautiful, but of a _hectic_ beauty; to me not pleasant, even
fatal looking. Such things grow not in the ground, on Mother
Earth's honest bosom, but in hothouses,--Sentimental-Calvinist
fire traceable underneath! Bancroft also is of the hothouse
partly: I have a Note to send him by Sumner; do you thank him
meanwhile, and say nothing about _hothouses!_ But, on the whole,
men ought in New England, too to "swallow their formulas";*
there is no freedom till then: yet hitherto I find only one man
there who seems fairly on the way towards that, or arrived at
that. Good speed to _him._ I had to send my Wife's love: she
is not dangerously ill; but always feeble, and has to _struggle_
to keep erect; the summer always improves her, and this summer
too. Adieu, dear Friend; may Good always be with you and yours.

--T. Carlyle

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* This was the saying of the old Marquis de Mirabeau concerning
his son, _Il a hume toutes les formules,_ and is used as a text
by Carlyle in his article on Mirabeau. "Of inexpressible
advantage is it that a man have 'an eye instead of a pair of
spectacles merely'; that, seeing through the formulas of things
and even 'making away' with many a formula, he see into the thing
itself, and so know it and be master of it!"
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XXV. Emerson to Carlyle

Boston, 30 July, 1888

My Dear Sir,--I am in town today to get what money the booksellers
will relinquish from their faithful gripe, and have succeeded now
in obtaining a first instalment, however small. I enclose to you
a bill of exchange for fifty pounds sterling, which costs here
exactly $242.22, the rate of exchange being nine percent. I
shall not today trouble you with any account, for my letter
must be quickly ready to go by the steam-packet. An exact
account has been rendered to me, which, though its present
balance in our favor is less than I expected, yet, as far as I
understand it, agrees well with all that has been promised: