And whilst
the recollection of its claims oppresses me with a sense of my
unworthiness, I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change
can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its
highest functions.
September 9, 1832.
ESSAYS FROM "THE DIAL"
_The Editors to the Reader_
We invite the attention of our countrymen to a new design.
Probably not quite unexpected or unannounced will our Journal appear,
though small pains have been taken to secure its welcome. Those, who
have immediately acted in editing the present Number, cannot accuse
themselves of any unbecoming forwardness in their undertaking, but
rather of a backwardness, when they remember how often in many
private circles the work was projected, how eagerly desired, and only
postponed because no individual volunteered to combine and
concentrate the free-will offerings of many cooperators. With some
reluctance the present conductors of this work have yielded
themselves to the wishes of their friends, finding something sacred
and not to be withstood in the importunity which urged the production
of a Journal in a new spirit.
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