I Shall Be With Christ, And That

Lectures Which Really Teach Will Never Be Popular; Lectures Which Are Popular Will Never Really Teach.

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.

But Still Try, For Who Knows What Is Possible?

As When On Some Secluded Branch In Forest Far And Wide Sits Perched An Owl, Who, Full Of Self-conceit And Self-created Wisdom, Explains, Comments, Condemns, Ordains And Order Things Not Understood, Yet Full Of Importance Still Holds Forth To Stocks And Stones Around - So Sits And Scribbles Mike.

It Is Right That We Should Stand By And Act On Our Principles; But Not Right To Hold Them In Obstinate Blindness, Or Retain Them When Proved To Be Erroneous.