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Wheeler, Edward. Letter to Isaac Post.

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Pg. 4 professes to be displeased. Why? Simply that myself is suited. Why should I go into another? Hell. It would only augment the volume of unhappiness without really mitigating any body ____ trouble. We live to amuse each other, without thinking to please ourselves. This you know would be selfish, according to that ____ that ___ professes to know anything certain Well suppose every one pleased himself Now many would be displeased. The world would present a new, and hope ful ___ at once. Well I have written enough. I do not doubt but you will go on training in your progressive Lyceum, flattering your= selves that your giving the world an addi tional lift, toward light, while you are only aiding miscreant spirits in ___ ing a new ___ for those who were near enough their selves to fell the breath= ing wishes of their loved ones within their deepest natures. Existence is beautiful because it is simple, unpretending, artless, unaffected, and ____. The mo= ment that we put an extravagence upon it, we ___, and lose ourselves. I was never more familiar with loved ones unseen them now. There is a holy melody within me that leaves no wanting feeling unsatisfied. There are those with me who feel more___ a common interest in you, and if I get their feelings correctly they do not make you realize as they have done. My family are all in good health, finding enough to do, and seem withal quite willing to do. Remember me to Jacob and Joseph. Also to Willie

                                        Good Night

All send love Edward Wheeler Isaac + Amy Post