There Are Matters As To Which A Man Should Never Take
A Pen In Hand Unless He Has Given To Them Much Labor.
The botanist
must have learned to trace the herbs and flowers before he can
presume to tell us how God has formed them.
But the death of Hector
is a fit subject for a boy's verses, though Homer also sang of it.
I feel that there is scope for a book on the United States form of
government as it was founded, and as it has since framed itself,
which might do honor to the life-long studies of some one of those
great constitutional pundits whom we have among us; but,
nevertheless, the plain words of a man who is no pundit need not
disgrace the subject, if they be honestly written, and if he who
writes them has in his heart an honest love of liberty. Such were
my thoughts as I walked the deck of the Cunard steamer. Then I
descended to my cabin, settled my luggage, and prepared a table for
the continuance of my work. It was fourteen days from that time
before I reached London, but the fourteen days to me were not
unpleasant. The demon of sea-sickness spares me always, and if I
can find on board one or two who are equally fortunate - who can eat
with me, drink with me, and talk with me - I do not know that a
passage across the Atlantic is by any means a terrible evil to me.
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