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water, and brings forth merely hazy and cloudy
ideas. He should drink wine and eat meat, or at
least fish, so that there might be marrow and
substance in his ideas. Marcus, too, was amused at
the Conversation, but in his quiet way. Among the
audience were some ladies with splendid, intelligent
foreheads and beautiful forms. But I did not hear
them say a word: I wonder how they could sit still
and listen in silence; for my part, I could not do
it. And although the company were invited to a new
series of Conversations, this of a certainty will be
the last that I shall attend.
January 26. Alcott came to me yesterday afternoon. We
conversed for two hours. He explained himself better
during our dialogue than in his public Conversation,
and I understood better than hitherto that there was
really at the bottom of his reform movement a true and
excellent thought. This thought is the importance of
an earnest and holy disposition of mind in those who
enter into the bonds of wedlock, so that the union may
be noble and its offspring good and beautiful. His
plans for bringing about these beautiful and holy
marriages between ideal people (for none other are
to enter into matrimony--oh! oh! for the many!) may
be right for aught I know. They are better and more
accordant to human nature
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