d on
the 15th of July, and that at Dartmouth College on the 24th of
the same month. The title of the latter was "Literary Ethics."
Both are reprinted in Emerson's _Miscellanies._ These remarkable
discourses excited deep interest and wide attention. They
established Emerson's position as the leader of what was known as
the Transcendental movement. They were the expressions of his
inmost convictions and his matured thought. The Address at the
Divinity School gave rise to a storm of controversy which did not
disturb the serenity of its author. "It was," said Theodore
Parker, "the noblest, the most inspiring strain I ever listened
to." To others it seemed "neither good divinity nor good sense."
The Address at Dartmouth College set forth the high ideals of
intellectual life with an eloquence made irresistible by the
character of the speaker. From this time Emerson's influence
upon thought in America was acknowledged.
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XXVII. Carlyle to Emerson

Scotsbrig, Ecclefechan, (Annandale, Scotland)
25 September, 1838

My Dear Emerson,--There cannot any right answer be written you
here and now; yet I must write such answer as I can. You said,
"by steamship"; and it strikes me with a kind of remorse, on
this my first day of leisure and composure, that I have delayed
so long. For you must know, this is my Mother's house,--a place
to me unutterable as Hades and the Land of Spectres were;
likewise that my Brother is just home from Italy, and on the wing
thitherward or somewhither swiftly again; in a word, that all is
confusion and flutter with me here,--fit only for _silence!_ My
Wife sent me off hitherward, very sickly and unhappy, out of the
London dust, several weeks ago; I lingered in Fifeshire, I was
in Edinburgh, in Roxburghshire; have some calls to Cumberland,
which I believe I must refuse; and prepare to creep homeward
again, refreshed in health, but with a head and heart all
seething and tumbling (as the wont is, in such cases), and averse
to pens beyond all earthly implements. But my Brother is off
for Dumfries this morning; you before all others deserve an
hour of my solitude. I will abide by business; one must write
about that.

Your Bill and duplicate of a Bill for L50, with the two Letters
that accompanied them, you are to know then, did duly arrive at
Chelsea; and the larger Letter (of the 6th of August) was
forwarded to me hither some two weeks ago. I had also, long
before