[Footnote 141:  St. Bernard de Clairvaux (1091-1153), French ecclesiastic.]

[Footnote 142:  Jesus.  Holmes writes of Emerson:  “Jesus was for him a divine manifestation, but only as other great human souls have been in all ages and are to-day.  He was willing to be called a Christian just as he was willing to be called a Platonist....  If he did not worship the ‘man Christ Jesus’ as the churches of Christendom have done, he followed his footsteps so nearly that our good Methodist, Father Taylor, spoke of him as more like Christ than any man he had known.”]

[Footnote 143:  The first his refers to Jesus, the second to Shakespeare.]

[Footnote 144:  Banyan.  What is the characteristic of this tree that makes it appropriate for this figure?]

SELF-RELIANCE

[Footnote 145:  Ne te, etc.  “Do not seek for anything outside of thyself.”  From Persius, Sat. I. 7.  Compare Macrobius, Com. in Somn.  Scip., I. ix. 3, and Boethius, De Consol.  Phil., IV. 4.]

[Footnote 146:  Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher’s Honest Man’s Fortune.]

[Footnote 147:  These lines appear in Emerson’s Quatrains under the title Power.]

[Footnote 148:  Genius.  See the paragraph on genius in Emerson’s lecture on The Method of Nature, one sentence of which runs:  “Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator.”]

[Footnote 149:  “The man that stands by himself, the universe stands by him also.”—­EMERSON, Behavior.]

[Footnote 150:  Plato (429-347 B.C.), (See note 36.)]

[Footnote 151:  Milton (1608-1674), the great English epic poet, author of Paradise Lost.

   “O mighty-mouth’d inventor of harmonies,
    O skill’d to sing of Time or Eternity,
    God-gifted organ-voice of England,
    Milton, a name to resound for ages.”—­TENNYSON.

]

[Footnote 152:  “The great poet makes feel our own wealth.”—­EMERSON, The Over-Soul.]

[Footnote 153:  Then most when, most at the time when.]

[Footnote 154:  “The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”—­EMERSON, Address to the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge.]

[Footnote 155: 

“For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the soul within.” 
TENNYSON, In Memoriam, V. I.

]

[Footnote 156:  Trust thyself.  This is the theme of the present essay, and is a lesson which Emerson is never tired of teaching.  In The American Scholar he says: 

“In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.”  In the essay on Greatness: 

“Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears....  Stick to your own....  Follow the path your genius traces like the galaxy of heaven for you to walk in.”