17–23 July 1865

Notes for WilUamstown.^ Returns the eternal topic, the praise of intellect. I gain my point, gain all points, whenever I can reach the young man with any statement which teaches him his own worth. Thus, if I can touch his imagina- tion, I serve him ; he will never forget it. If I can open to him for a moment the superiority of knowledge to wealth or physical power. Es- pecially works on me at all times any statement of Realism, and, old as my habit is of thrum- ming on this string, I must continue to try it, till in a manlier or a divine hour, I can see the truth, and say it.