after meetings with Carlyle, Emerson, Darwin, et al in London in April 1873, Charles Eliot Norton characterized the difference between Carlyle and Emerson in a letter so:
"They have grown apart; content with the world is the humor of one, discontent with it that of the other. Both, however, are alike in the underlying tenderness and sweetness of their souls. Emerson finds Carlyle too cynical, Carlyle finds Emerson too transcendental; daily intercourse is not delightful, but each recognizes in the other the highest gifts of nature..." (Letter of Charles Eliot Norton, vol. 1, p. 485-486; letter to J. R. Lowell, April 20, 1873)
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