Did you guys know that your Dad like Ralph Waldo Emerson? He used to read his works when he was in college. I found a book with Emerson's reflections and some things your dad underlined.
On Nature and the Natural Man... he under lined the following:
"Nature is a setting that fits equally well in comic or a mourning piece."
"I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulated through me; I am part or parcel of God."
"We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no histroy, only biography."
"Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself--must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will know... The better for him"
"In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costume; they are perfect in their organs, attitude, manners: moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours--they speak to us, and we listen with surprise to what they say."
On Character and Self Reliance... he underlined the following:
"I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake."
I just thought you'd all like to see a glimpse of how his mind worked! :)
