Highest Class of thought (you may depend upon it); and again
seemed to me as, in several respects, the one perfectly Human
Voice I had heard among my fellow-creatures for a long time. And
then the "style," the treatment and expression,--yes, it is
inimitable, best--Emersonian throughout. Such brevity,
simplicity, softness, homely grace; with such a penetrating
meaning, _soft_ enough, but irresistible, going down to the
depths and up to the heights, as _silent electricity_ goes. You
have done _very well;_ and many will know it ever better by
degrees.--Only one thing farther I will note: How you go as if
altogether on the "Over-Soul," the Ideal, the Perfect or
Universal and Eternal in this life of ours; and take so little
heed of the frightful quantities of _friction_ and perverse
impediment there everywhere are; the reflections upon which in
my own poor life made me now and then very sad, as I read you.
Ah me, ah me; what a vista it is, mournful, beautiful,
_unfathomable_ as Eternity itself, these last fifty years of Time
to me.--

Let me not forget to thank you for that _fourth_ page of your
Note; I should say it was almost the most interesting of all.
News from yourself at first hand; a momentary glimpse into the
actual Household at Concord, face to face, as in years of old!
True, I get vague news of you from time to time; but what are
these in comparison?--If you _will,_ at the eleventh hour, turn
over a new leaf, and write me Letters again,--but I doubt _you
won't._ And yet were it not worth while, think you? [Greek]--
will be here _anon._--My kindest regards to your wife. Adieu, my
ever-kind Old Friend.