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Then how should I manage all my business if I were obliged to go every day walking with my wife. (without one's wife was an angel, & made one keep industrious). īut then if I married tomorrow: there would be an infinity of trouble & expense in getting & furnishing a house, -fighting about no Society -morning calls -awkwardness -loss of time every day.
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The Governor says soon for otherwise bad if one has children - one's character is more flexible -one's feelings more lively & if one does not marry soon, one misses so much good pure happiness.
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Perhaps my wife wont like London then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool. (But then it is very bad for ones health to work too much) cannot read in the Evenings - fatness & idleness - Anxiety & responsibility - less money for books &c - if many children forced to gain one's bread. to have the expense & anxiety of children - perhaps quarelling - Loss of time. Conversation of clever men at clubs - Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle. Marlbro' St.įreedom to go where one liked - choice of Society & little of it. Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps - Compare this vision with the dingy reality of Grt.
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Imagine living all one's day solitarily in smoky dirty London House. My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, & nothing after all. Home, & someone to take care of house - Charms of music & female chit-chat. Several weeks later, in July of 1838, he revisited the subject, with another meditation on the value of a life-partner ("better than a dog anyhow"):Ĭhildren - (if it Please God) - Constant companion, (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one, - object to be beloved & played with. In country, experiment & observations on lower animals, - more space. I have so much more pleasure in direct observation, that I could not go on as Lyell does, correcting & adding up new information to old train & I do not see what line can be followed by man tied down to London. or poor man outskirts of London, some small Square &c: - & work as well as I can Then Cambridge Professorship, - & make best of it, do duty as such & work at spare times - ¶ My destiny will be Camb. Then Cambridge, better, but fish out of water, not being Professor & poverty. I could not indolently take country house & do nothing - Could I live in London like a prisoner? If I were moderately rich, I would live in London, with pretty big house & do as (B), but could I act thus with children & poor? No - Then where live in country near London better, but great obstacles to science & poverty. But better than hybernating in country, & where? Better even than near London country house. comply with all above requisites - I could not systematiz zoologically so well. London life, nothing but Society, no country, no tours, no large Zoolog. If marry - means limited, Feel duty to work for money. ?.oldest formations? Some experiments - physiological observation on lower animalsī Live in London for where else possible in small house, near Regents Park -keep horse -take Summer tours Collect specimens some line of Zoolog: Speculations of Geograph. Work at transmission of Species - Microscope simplest forms of life - Geology. If I travel it must be exclusively geological United States, Mexico Depend upon health & vigour & how far I become Zoological