Ralph Waldo Emerson: in Rebecca Harding Davis, A Little Gossip

Ralph Waldo Emerson, conversation with Rebecca Harding Davis in 1862
       "Henry often reminded me of an animal in human form. He had the eye of a bird, the scent of a dog, the most acute, delicate intelligence. But no soul. No," [p. 565] he repeated, shaking his head with decision, "Henry could not have had a human soul."
       — Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a conversation with Rebecca Harding Davis in 1862, in Rebecca Harding Davis’, "A Little Gossip," Scribner’s Magazine, XXVIII (November, 1900), 565-566.