I stated this to a member of our Junior Class who is a wonderful metaphysician.

He was kind enough to say that he could discover no flaw in the logic.

Your letter, which, I trust, is now on its way to me, I know will fully confirm my theory and conclusion.
This lady had probably been reading some miserable cant about Southern humanity, for there are people everywhere who take the wrong side of every subject, from sheer obstinacy.

What can disprove the laws of human nature?
They require that things should be at the South as our theories lay them down.
In our Institution I mourn to say there is much opposition to the principles of freedom.

Not only so, but the students, many of them, mock at us who stand up against oppression.
You may not be aware, dear Aunty, that I have a habit, in walking, of keeping my hands firmly clenched, and my thumbs laid flat and pressed down over the knuckles of my forefingers.