Camp, June 23, 1863.
I like your idea of convenient and comfortable duties —
excellent, — no family should be without them, — let us order a small lot at
once. Seriously though, it does seem strange that in a world where it would
seem so easy to enjoy, — this conscience should so often come in to make us “move
on.” Carlyle says (and many others say) that conscience is the sign of man's
fall, that it is the fruit of knowledge which drove man out of Paradise.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 263-4
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