4–10 April 1842

Alcott brought here this day a manuscript pa- per written by his brother Junius, which had three good things in it, — first, that it was a Prayer, written in this prayerless age ; second, that he thanks God for the continuance of their love, the one for the other ; and third, he thanks him for the knowledge he has attained of him by his Sons.

Having once learned that in some one thing, although externally small, greatness might be contained, so that in doing that, it was all one as if I had builded a world; I was thereby taught, that every thing in nature should represent total nature ; and that whatsoever thing did not re- present to me the sea and sky, day and night, was something forbidden or wrong.