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It is not, I apprehend, a healthy kind of mental occupation to devote

ourselves too exclusively to the study of individual men and women If

the person under examination be one's self, the result is pretty

certain to be diseased action of the heart, allance Or if we take the freedom to put a friend under our

microscope, we thereby insulate hinify his peculiarities, inevitably tear hiether again What wonder, then,

should we be frightened by the aspect of a h we can point to every feature of his defore,--may be said to have been created mainly by ourselves

Thus, as sworth a

great wrong by prying into his character; and areat a one, at thisfaith in the discoveries which

I seemed to ht have used him better He and Zenobia and Priscilla--both for

their own sakes and as connected with hiination, and stood forth as the indices of

a problem which it was my business to solve

Other associates had a

portion ofoccurrences

carriedwith them, while they lasted But here was the vortex

of my meditations, around which they revolved, and whitherward they too

continually tended In theof loneliness For it was impossible not to be sensible that,