22–28 October 1838

' Jones Very came hither, two days since, and gave occasion to many thoughts on his peculiar state of mind and his relation to society. His position accuses society as much as society names it false and morbid ; and much of his discourse concerning society, the church, and the college was perfectly just.

Jones Very says it is with him a day of hate ; that he discet-ns the bad element in every person whom he meets, which repels him : he even shrinks a little to give the hand, — that sign of receiving. The institutions, the cities which men have built the world over, look to him like a huge blot of ink. His own only guard in going to see men is that he goes to do them good, else they would injure him (spiritually). He lives in the sight that he who made him, made the things he sees.