To be sure, I have only once in the time computed a parabolic orbit; but it seems to me that I know no more in general.

I think I am a little better thinker, that I take things less upon trust, but at the same time I trust myself much less.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.
"Will it really unroll to us at some future time?
Aside from the gratification of the affections in another world, that of the intellect must be great if it is enlarged and its desires are the same.
"Nov.

24, 1854.

Yesterday James Freeman Clarke, the biographer of Margaret Fuller, came into the Atheneum.