Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www million-books com where you can read more than a million books for free Excerpt from book: School DaysII "All things are engaged in writing their history; the air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which ожсгу speak to the intelligent " ? textit{Emerson Down the valley from the old homestead, about one mile away, just " round by the pond," was a little red schoolhouse A second growth of maple and birch occupied the outlying grounds A clear, limpid brook meandered on the further side of the little valley, abounding with fish, lamper-eels, and fresh-water shells To childhood's eyes the saplings were tall trees, the neighboring hills towered up like mountains, and the little brook seemed like a respectable river Names were carved on those saplings,? that of James among the rest The brook where the boys and girls fished, and built dams and water-wheels, still winds like a silver thread among the fields, but how diminutive compared with what it once seemed! The landscape still remains The same moon casts its silver shine on the laughing face of the little brook, and the silent constellations look down upon this local scene as in " days of yore " But the boys and girls of the " olden days " are no longer there They have all been transplanted from this early lesson school,? some to peaceful industrious homes in the far West, some to active participation in the world's great movements, and still others from the visible arena to a home in the heavens In this little red schoolhouse James acquired those rudiments of written speech which were essential to open to him the book lore he was to master in his prime His early tutors did not cast his horoscope, however They knew nothing of the quality of genius they had taken in hand to train Child education in those days ? and for that matter, largely at the present d.  Hvorost2009 г Мягкая обложка, 438 стр ISBN 1443257435.