3–9 June 1839

I suppose the number of reforms preached to this age exceeds the usual measure, and in- dicates the depth and universaHty of the move- ment which betrays itself by such variety of symptom. Anti-money, anti-war, anti-slavery, anti-government, anti-Christianity, anti-college ; and, the rights of Woman.

If a great man turn his attention to inferior natures, he will show the divine in them. . . . The stars to which loving and hoping men have added such moral splendor are white points to the dull.

I remembered in the wood the profuse Nature which scatters from her hand all sorts of crea- tures. At Dartmouth College, last July, was a good sheriff-like gentleman with a loud voice, a pompous air, and a fine coat, whose aid, it seemed, the College annually called in, to mar- shal their procession. He was in his element; he commanded us all with such despotic conde- scension, as put all dignities and talents but his own quite aside. He marched before, the Col- lege followed him like a tame dog.

Guido's Aurora for a morning prayer ; so wills and so loves us Thomas Carlyle.'