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As to your wishing that I were not jealous. If wishing would turn one thing into another, your wish might be gratified. I may swallow some things and I may decide to go to hell. I will follow my strongest feelings. 

Think that I feel very much as you do about children, far away and doubtful. [[strikethrough]] How strong it is that ones dreams are [[/strikethrough]] schatterid [[shattered]] the moment one brings them in contact with actuality. I have learned that dreams are valueless unless they correpond [[correspond]] to life itself. I take back what I said about its seeming strong it is not so with me anymore. To live in Emerson's Essay and with the philosophers is uplifting to a young man, he draws his conclusions of life from them without having had enough experience of life itself; he builds his hopes and aspirations on them and what he has [[strikethrough]] [[abendy]] [[/strikethrough]] memorized he already thinks himself to be. But the coming back to earth comes sooner or latter [[later]] and one find that one must take life as it is if one wants to find oneself. Then the moment one plays with reality progress is