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All Your Names I And My Friend Approve Of Or Nearly All As To Sense & Expression, But I Am Frightened By Their Length & Sound When Compounded. As You Will See I Have Taken Deoxide And Skaiode Because They Agree Best With My Natural Standard East And West. I Like Anode & Cathode Better As To Sound, But All To Whom I Have Shewn Them Have Supposed At First That By Anode I Meant No Way.

Occasionally And Frequently The Exercise Of The Judgment Ought To End In Absolute Reservation. It May Be Very Distasteful, And Great Fatigue, To Suspend A Conclusion; But As We Are Not Infallible, So We Ought To Be Cautious; We Shall Eventually Find Our Advantage, For The Man Who Rests In His Position Is Not So Far From Right As He Who, Proceeding In A Wrong Direction, Is Ever Increasing His Distance.

You Will Be Astonished When I Tell You What This Curious Play Of Carbon Amounts To. A Candle Will Burn Some Four, Five, Six, Or Seven Hours. What, Then, Must Be The Daily Amount Of Carbon Going Up Into The Air In The Way Of Carbonic Acid! ... Then What Becomes Of It? Wonderful Is It To Find That The Change Produced By Respiration ... Is The Very Life And Support Of Plants And Vegetables That Grow Upon The Surface Of The Earth.

When I Came To Know Mrs. Marcet Personally; How Often I Cast My Thoughts Backward, Delighting To Connect The Past And The Present; How Often, When Sending A Paper To Her As A Thank You Offering, I Thought Of My First Instructress.

I Have Been So Electrically Occupied Of Late That I Feel As If Hungry For A Little Chemistry: But Then The Conviction Crosses My Mind That These Things Hang Together Under One Law & That The More Haste We Make Onwards Each In His Own Path The Sooner We Shall Arrive, And Meet Each Other, At That State Of Knowledge Of Natural Causes From Which All Varieties Of Effects May Be Understood & Enjoyed.