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 genuineness of his philosophy. He takes his place beside Socrates, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius:

The crayon portrait—now in the Concord Free Library—was drawn by Samuel Worcester Rowse, and may safely be accepted as 'an excellent likeness' of Thoreau without a beard. Writing from England to Professor Norton, the poet Clough bears this testimony to the fidelity of Rowse's crayons: "Child brought me your present of Emerson's picture, which is really, I think, the best portrait of any living and known-to-me man that I have ever seen. It is a great pleasure to possess it." One year later, he had not changed his