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seeking" in these men. Perhaps not; it is vaguely stated, and I cannot
tell. One of these days you will spread it out and I shall see. I have
ideas of progress, with which my thoughts are often wrestling, and I
shall be glad to have them made more just, expanded, and earnest. With
love to all,

Yours ever,

ORVILLE DEWEY.

To Rev. William Ware.

SHEFFIELD, May 25, 1849. MY DEARLY BELOVED AND LONGED FOR,--I can't have
you go to New York and not come here; and my special intent in writing
now is to show you how little out of your way it is to return to
Cambridge by Berkshire, and how little more expense it is. I trust that
Mrs. Ware is to be with you.

There! it's a short argument, but a long conclusion shall follow,--a
week long of talk and pleasure, which shall be as good as forty weeks
long, by the heart's measurement. [213]Alas! these college prayers! If
I had anything to do with them, it would be upon the plan of remodelling
hem entirely. I would have them but once in a day, it a convenient hour,
say eight or nine o'clock in the morning. I would have leave to do
what my heart night prompt in the great hours of adoration. Reading the
Scriptures with a word of comment, sometimes, or t word uttered as the
spirit moved, without reading; or instead, a matin hymn or old Gregorian
chant, solemn seasons, free breathings of veneration and joy; sometimes
he reading of a prayer of the Episcopal Church, or of he venerable olden
time, always a bringing down A the great sentiment of devotion into
young life, to De its guidance and strength,--this should be college
prayers. . . .

To Rev. Henry W. Bellows.

SHEFFIELD, Feb. II, 1850.

My DEAR FRIEND,--In the first place, La Bruyere was the name of the
French satirist that I could not remember the other day. In the second
place, I have a letter from Mr. Lowell, inviting me to deliver the
second course of lectures, and the time fixed upon is the winter after
next; I can't be prepared by next winter. As to the title, I think,
after all, Herder's is the best: "Philosophy of Humanity," or I should
as lief say, "On the Problem of Evil in the World." You said of me once
in some critique, I believe, that I always seemed to write as in the
presence of objectors. I shall be very likely to do so now. Well, here
is work for me for two years ahead, if I have life and health, and work
that I like above all other. In the third place, I don't think I shall
do much for the "Inquirer."