[87] American debility


     To transmute crime to wisdom, & to stem

     The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem.


[88]      Eloquence

             Intellect   1 Method

                             2 Imagination

                                    power of symbols

                                    "rugged & awful crisis"


     Irish Eloquence of common people

     example of the animal heat division

          There must be spirit too


Language.  Words borrowed from animals

     to dog

     to raven

     to cow

     to ram

     to ape

     to horse

     to rabbit

     to snake

     to badger

     to worm

     to rat

from Ralph Waldo Emerson's blog, er,

JOURNAL O, 1846
Vol IX, page 384, 1843-7

ANT

to ant, I might add