To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. It being proved necessary to Marry When? Soon or late? Perhaps my wife won’t like London then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool. (but then it is very bad for ones health to work too much) cannot read in the Evenings-fatness & idleness-Anxiety & responsibility-less money for books &c-if many children forced to gain one’s bread. to have the expense and anxiety of children-perhaps quarreling-Loss of time. Conversation of clever men at clubs-Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle.
Marlbro’ Street.įreedom to go where one liked-choice of Society and little of it. Imagine living all one’s day solitary in smoky dirty London House.-Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps-Compare this vision with the dingy reality of Grt. My God, it is Intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working-& nothing after all.-No, no, won’t do. Home, & someone to take care of house-Charms of music and female chit-chat.-These things good for one’s health.- but terrible loss of time. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhere near to that great fact-that mystery of mysteries-the first appearance of new beings on this earth.Ĭhildren-(if it Please God)-Constant companion (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one-object to be beloved and played with-better than a dog anyhow. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Considering the small size of these islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range. The archipelago is a little world within itself, or rather a satellite attached to America, whence it has derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions. Most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else there is even a difference between the inhabitants of the different islands yet all show a marked relationship with those of America, though separated from that continent by an open space of ocean, between 500 and 600 miles in width. The natural history of these islands is eminently curious, and well deserves attention.
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