All I can say is that I am in it.

What would be the effect of necessity on me, I know not, whether it would lead me back or lead me on.

My feeling of duty towards you is a continual weight upon me which I cannot throw off--it is best, perhaps, that I cannot.

All appears to me as a seeming, not a reality.

Nothing touches that life in me which is seeking that which I know not." TO GEORGE HECKER.--"Brook Farm, March 6, 1843 .-- What was the reason of my going, or what made me go?
The reason I am not able to tell.
But what I felt was a dark, irresistible influence upon me that led me away from home.