The edition of Emerson around the house has in the preface a quotation from Harriet Martineau, roughly "The logicians score incessant triumphs over him, yet he

The edition of Emerson around the house has in the preface a quotation from Harriet Martineau, roughly "The logicians score incessant triumphs over him, yet he is not vanquished." It seems to me that Emerson was an outstanding journalist and writer on current events. As a thinker, though, he strikes me as too frequently vague and ready to make rhetoric cover for doubtful inferences.