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332 saw abroad, & they have acknowledged to [??], that they have learnt much, that they never will have [??][??] of, if they had stayed at home. This, which is true of all, is doubly true of their literary men. One of the leading writers of New England described to me the craving that he felt for intercourse with minds cultivated as they are only in Europe. There only, in his opinion, men had time to think; there only had the critical faculties been trained; there only [??] meet with broad & profound views on questions of Literature, History, or Policy. The whole of the Literature of America were but a [??] of that of England, France, & Germany. I regretted the necessity which obliged me to leave Boston before I had seen as much as I wanted of its society. I did not feel in this way, because it was [??] nearly resembled European society than in the cafe with any other city in the [??], for one does not go to America to see what can be seen at home, but because I waited for more time to cultivate this [??] of some, with when I felt that it would be a [??] afterwords to be [??]; &because I was [??] of using every opportunity for [??] at [??][??] conclusions as to the [??] of opinion & thought, [more?] particularly religious thought, in the new world.