Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr[
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[2]but again the chilling answer is reiterated, but could we but live a million of years, then how delightful to spend in perfect content- ment so many thousand years in quiet study in college, so many amid the grateful dim of machines, so many among human pain, so many thousands in the sweet study of nature among the dingles and and dells of Scotland, and all the other less important parts of our world. Then perhaps might we, with at least a show of reason, "shuffle off this mortal coil and look back upon our star with something of satisfaction; I should be ashamed if shame might be in the other world, if any of the powers, virtues, essences etc should ask one for common knowledge concerning our world which I could not bestow -, But away with this aged structure and we are back to our hand- ful of hasty years half gone, all of course for the best did we but know all of the Creators plan concerning us, In our higher state of existence we shall have time & intellect for study - Eternity - with perhaps the whole unlimited creation of God as our field should satisfy us, and make us patient & trustful, while we pray with the Psalmist "Teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom" I was struck with your remarks about our real home as being a thing of stillness and peace - how little does the outer & noisy world in general know of that "real home" & real inner life, happy indeed they who have a friend to whom they can unmask the workings of their real life, sure of sympathy & forbearance. I sent for the book which you recom- mend. I have just been reading a short sketch of the00359
Location
Trouts Mill, [Canada]
Date Original
[1865] Sep 13
Source
Original letter dimensions: 31.5 x 39.0 cm
Resource Identifier
muir01_0710-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0710
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
