very earnest, faithful, affectionate, some of them highly gifted men; some of them, too, prepared to make great sacrifices for conscience's sake. Froude is a noble youth to whom my heart warms; I shall soon see him again. Truly I became fond of these monks of Oxford."
Evidently there was one man in America to whom the devastating Nemesis of Faith did not come as a surprise.
Of course Thoreau learned of Froude from Emerson's lips, and read Emerson's copy of that "incendiary" book. That Thoreau should send Froude a copy of his own first book—then falling still-born from Munroe's—press was only natural, considering the downrightness of that chapter in the work fancifully termed "Sunday." Froude's letter to Thoreau
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