In these Lectures which from week to week I read, each on a topic which is a main interest of man…
In these Lectures which from week to week I read, each on a topic which is a main interest of man, & maybe made an object of exclusive interest I seem to vie with the brag of Puck “I can put a girdle round about the world in forty minutes.” I take fifty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:286
