of the _flere_ and _dolendum;_ perhaps truer. Wherefore,
putting all things together, cannot I feel that I have washed my
hands of this business in a quite tolerable manner? Let a man be
thankful; and on the whole go along, while he has strength left
to go.

This Boston _Transcendentalist,_ whatever the fate or merit of it
prove to be, is surely an interesting symptom. There must be
things not dreamt of, over in that Transoceanic Parish! I shall
cordially wish well to this thing; and hail it as the sure
forerunner of things better. The Visible becomes the Bestial
when it rests not on the Invisible. Innumerable tumults of
Metaphysic must be struggled through (whole generations perishing
by the way), and at last Transcendentalism evolve itself (if I
construe aright), as the _Euthanasia_ of Metaphysic altogether.
May it be sure, may it be speedy! Thou shalt open thy _eyes,_ O
Son of Adam; thou shalt _look,_ and not forever jargon about
_laws_ of Optics and the making of spectacles! For myself, I
rejoice very much that I seem to be flinging aside innumerable
sets of spectacles (could I but _lay_ them aside,--with
gentleness!) and hope one day actually to see a thing or two.
Man _lives_ by Belief (as it was well written of old); by logic
he can only at best long to live. Oh, I am dreadfully, afflicted
with Logic here, and wish often (in my haste) that I had the
besom of destruction to lay to it for a little!

"Why? and WHEREFORE? God wot, simply THEREFORE! Ask not WHY;
't is SITH thou hast to care for."

Since I wrote last to you, (which seems some three months ago,)