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the truth of what I told my scholars to day in connection with the lesson in Intellectual Philosophy: viz, that if the mind be rightly disciplined and improved, the longer one lives, the more happiness, because constantly increasing, both the means and capacity for it: that the days of childhood and youth looked back to with regret as the happiest period of life, are in their frolics and hilarity, like the playfulness and joy of kittens and lamps; and bear no comparison to the full enjoyment of the soul in maturer years. I think your ideas about Lucy Searles one correct. Miss Lyon educated several of her nieces by lending them money to be repaid by their own earning: it is certainly very desirable that whatever help or facilities are afforded that the spirit of independence or rather the self-dependent should be fostered: perhaps we needs have no fears on that score for that kind of pride, if it be proper to call it so, is not lacking in our family generally, their mother and grandmother by no means forming an exception. I am scribbling off this letter very fast without your ink which is one reason it looks so bad-another is I am writing by the role of 'one poor tallow candle.' I promised to make some calls this evening expect our company along every minute; want to mail this tomorrow morning, so shall not try to fill the whole sheet this time. I think you and Lucy must have nice times together wish I was there too. Congratulate on your call from Gen. Hodgson, And when he next doth make a call may I be there to see.