“…140 Harris, "The Dialectic Unity in Emerson's Prose,[195][196][197][198][199][200][201][202]Yoder,"Emerson's Dialectic,Pochmann,New England Transcendentalism,[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64]Brann,"Hegel and His New England Echo,[56][57][58][59][60]and Wellek, "Emerson and German Philosophy," 56-58. shied away from the depth of his metaphysics, writing in a letter to Cabot in 1855: "I did not find my way into Hegel as readily as I hoped, nor was I as richly rewarded as probably better scholars have been." 141 Despite finding Hegel challenging, Emerson accepted the core tenets of his philosophy. R.A. Yoder and W.T.…”