Alas! him I must leave to go." In this final sentence, as it now stands in the diary and as we have transcribed it, occurs one of those efforts of which we have spoken, to obliterate the traces of this early attachment.

"Him" was originally written "her," but the _r_ has been lengthened to an _m,_ and the _e_ dotted, both with a care which overshot their mark by an almost imperceptible hair's-breadth.

If the nature of this attachment were not so evident from other sources, we should have left such passages unquoted; fearing lest they might be misunderstood.

As it is, the light they cast seems to us to throw up into fuller proportions the kind and extent of the renunciations to which Isaac Hecker was called before he had arrived at any clear view of the end to which they tended.
"Fruitlands, July 12 .-- Last evening I arrived here.

After tea I went out in the fields and raked hay for an hour in company with the persons here.