Author
Socrates is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in ‘Darkness Visible.’, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“it would need the patience of a Socrates to ravel the weary web and convince these sophists against their will that they are exactly in the opposite region”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“it would need the patience of a Socrates to ravel the weary web and convince these sophists against their will that they are exactly in the opposite region”
Fuller, Margaret. "‘Darkness Visible.’." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 March 1846. · 4 March 1846
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“It will easily be seen that it was not from the platform assumed by the Contemporaneo that Lycurgus legislated, and Socrates taught”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIV." New-York Daily Tribune, .
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“or groped in unaided philosophical search after God, and only arrived at the sublime but dim hopes of Socrates and Plato”
Fuller, Richard F. Recollections of Richard F. Fuller. Boston, 1936.
Inferred No work is named. Fuller refers to Socrates — “or groped in unaided philosophical search after God, and only arrived at the sublime but dim hopes of Socrates and Plato” — and the passage does not identify a specific writing.