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In fact I have almost succeeded in convincing myself that is not possible for one person to do every thing, that it was not best to have too many irons in the fire, and that an Engineer had better be confident to give up the languages and confine himself to Mathematics, and the really immense amount & variety of subjects more or less intimately connected with his profession.

   By the way, what sort of an effect upon a person of such unfortunate disposition, do you suppose that "Getting married" would have? Would that be likely to furnish any kind of an incitement or spur to exertion which it seems that Ambition fails to do? Does it not sometimes have that effect upon some? Would there be any hope of it in my unfortunate case?
  As far as your record of your employment goes, I should think you might be pretty comfortably employed, if you like also to write letters, it does not hurt you, and you do enough of it.
 "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" "Sequel" thereto etc. etc. I have read and was of course much interested therein. To be sure I do not like it, that its intention, its morale. It is the deepest & strongest, best disguised, & therefore most dangerous scheme of infidelity, or rather of Atheism, that was ever invented by man. Lay it bare its magnificent envelope of science & genius, and it is the boldest and most specious attempt to destroy the very idea of a Creator God, that was ever imagined. "Imagination & Fancy" is pretty. Do you not like "Oliver Twist"? I do very much indeed.

BackGammon I do not care much for, am less interested in it than almost any one else. With whom do you play? Miss Merrill? With Miss Merrill I was not acquainted; as indeed I was not with any one in Brunswick. I became acquainted in Topsham, not in Brunswick my last year in College. But then