Imanuel Ehrenhardt by Edgar Lee Masters — Read

I began with Sir William Hamilton's lectures.

Then studied Dugald Stewart;

And then John Locke on the Understanding, / And then Descartes, Fichte and Schelling, / Kant and then Schopenhauer --

Books I borrowed from old Judge Somers.

All read with rapturous industry / Hoping it was reserved to me / To grasp the tail of the ultimate secret, / And drag it out of its hole.

My soul flew up ten thousand miles, / And only the moon looked a little bigger.

Then I fell back, how glad of the earth!

All through the soul of William Jones / Who showed me a letter of John Muir.