Prologue: In search of a legend -- Auspicious morn -- Pedlar's progress -- A tender and sparkling flame -- I identified a human soul with my own -- Unto us a child is given -- Power struggle in the nursery -- Days of glory -- Fall from Eden -- Death of a hoper -- Orpheus at the plough -- Emerson to the rescue -- Connecticut Yankee in Surrey -- Search for a new Eden -- Paradise regained -- Paradise lost -- Weaving the golden band -- Thoreau's flute -- Loves' labor lost -- Exile's return -- Interlude: the philosopher as a young man -- Here's the pedlar! -- The philosopher as hero.
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