Show COMMUNING committing WITH ONES SELF A person of s a truly philosophic thilo philosophic sophic mind would seldom wish to fore forego o t the e ines unable privilege of communing nin wath with himself sir IV walter waiter alter scott says in in his diary I 1 from the earliest time I 1 can remember I 1 preferred the pleasure of being beina alone to wishing for visitors and have oft often en taken a bal bat bannock and a bit of cheese to the wood or hill to avoid dining 0 in company As I 1 grew from boyhood boyhood to manhood m I 1 saw this would not do a and that to gain a place in a mens esteem I 1 must mix with w ith them pride and exaltation of spirits often supplied the real pleasure which others seem to feel in society yet mine certainly upon many occasions was ivas real still if the question was eternal COMP company ady aDV without the power of retiring within with in yourself or solitary confinement for life J I 1 should say sturn turnkey lock the cell |