There was a small table upon the platform on which were pond lilies, some shelves around, and a few busts--one of Socrates, I think.
"I went in the evening to hear Dr.Harris on 'Philosophy.' The rain began to come down soon after I entered, and my philosophy was not sufficient to keep me from the knowledge that I had neither overshoes nor umbrella; I remembered, too, that it was but a narrow foot-path through the wet grass to the omnibus.

But I listened to Dr.Harris, and enjoyed it.

He lauded Fichte as the most accurate philosopher following Kant--he said not of the greatest _breadth_, but the most acute.
"After Dr.Harris' address, Mr.Alcott made a few remarks that were excellent, and said that when we had studied philosophy for fifteen years, as the lecturer had done, we might know something; but as it was, he had pulled us to pieces and then put us together again.
"The audience numbered sixty persons.
"May, 1880.

I have just finished Miss Peabody's account of Channing.

I have been more interested in Miss Peabody than in Channing, and have felt how valuable she must have been to him.