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We People In Camp Are Merely Big Children, Wayward And Changeable.

I Am Loaded Down To The Guards With Educational, Benevolent, And Other Miscellaneous Public Work, I Must Not Attempt To Do More. I Cannot Without Neglecting Imperative Duties.

In The Great And Deep Qualities Of Mind, Heart, And Soul, There Is No Change. Homer And Solomon Speak To The Same Nature In Man That Is Reached By Shakespeare And Lincoln. But In The Accidents, The Surroundings, The Change Is Vast. All Things Now Are Mobile--movable.

So Far As Laws And Institutions Avail, Men Should Have Equality Of Opportunity For Happiness; That Is, Of Education, Wealth, Power. These Make Happiness Secure. An Equal Diffusion Of Happiness So Far As Laws And Institutions Avail.

The Gloomy Theology Of The Orthodox--the Calvinists--i Do Not, I Cannot Believe. Many Of The Notions--nay, Most Of The Notions--which Orthodox People Have Of The Divinity Of The Bible, I Disbelieve. I Am So Nearly Infidel In All My Views, That Too, In Spite Of My Wishes, That None But The Most Liberal Doctrines Can Command My Assent.