Solitude and Society: A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain barrenness and poverty as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy. We required such solitude as shall hold us to its revelations when we are in the street and in places. Society and solitude are deceptive names. It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people, but the readiness of sympathy, that imports; and a sound mind will derive its principles from insight. With over a purer ascent to the sufficient and absolute right, and will accept society as the natural element in which they are to be applied- Ralph Waldo Emerson. (This appeared in a local paper and is now reproduced for the information of the members of “sundercircle”. Regards! Sunder Thadani. 20150512.
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