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The historians of New Thought point to Emerson as their first prophet, but he himself would deny the honour. What he thought of George Muller's autobiography, an early book which is made much of by the movement, was indicative of what he would have thought of the movement as a whole had it existed then. It pulled piety into the shoe-closet and left it suffocating there, was his first criticism. It could not stand close cross-examination, was his second. It lacked philosophic depth, was his third. Nevertheless, he was fair enough to praise the piety which it did contain.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 8 : Christian Science, Other Spiritual Movements > # 12