Scope and Contents "This book is to write what I please in!, what I feel and how I feel it. I often want to write because I feel like writing and think I ought to record the present thoughts as they pass so they can be used afterward." (page 7) "Recently a new scheme has entered my mind. . . . I thought of writing a story of adventure and killing robbers on a lovely island . . . . I think I want a change, and killing...

Scope and Contents "[I] Thought to use this book only for inspired thoughts." (page 5) "I think of the past but do not as a rule really see it as it was. . . . "Am yet undoubtedly in bondage to some things which I hardly realize now, but probably will later." (page 15) "The great sin of the age is frivolity, insincerity. . . . "Wealth we say is the great vice of our...

Scope and Contents "I see a fault in myself which is common to most who become ambitious or interested in anything. I want to do too much and my energies are dissipated." (page 13) "I have not as much interest in purely scientific papers as I had but I am interested in geology and especially in the development of that country [Uinta Basin]. I long to be identified with it." (page 29) "I am getting...

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Scope and Contents "It just occurred to me to use this book or a book for mental experiments: To see how the mind works. To follow its wandering." (page 2) "Man is something besides a body, but many spend a life time trying to satisfy its demands and made poor work of it." (page 8) "I know pretty nearly what is right for me in most things. The thing for me to do is to get busy and do them." (page...

Scope and Contents "Am beginning a new book. Have just finished a large one. Writing in it freely as I did gave me a good deal of pleasure and satisfaction." (page 29) "I would so live that each day will add new experience to life." (page 34) "I still wish for more freedom but it probably is best for me that I haven't more until I learn to use what I have properly." (page 37) "A...

Scope and Contents "Expression is the fruit of human thought." (page 6) "From one point of view it looks as if there were only two things in the way of man's greater comfort and happiness. One is death, the other lies in his own ignorance and perversity." (page 7) "As I grow older it seems to me more and more that true happiness as well as usefulness lies in selfrealization." (page 11) ...

Scope and Contents "Of course our characters are a sum total of what we think and do." (page 4) "Life is a struggle for existance. Many cannot look ahead with any very rational hope of things being much better." (page 7) "I had begun this book with object of writing what I felt like writing and when I felt like it." (page 19) "Man has always had a brain and a mind, but just what it...

Scope and Contents "I have determined to devote this book to the spiritual." (page 6) "And we read that the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, temperance, faith, life etc. In fact its fruits are all the best things those which bring happiness." (page 8) "We look before and after, and pine for what is not." (page 12) "Here is suggested one great defect in human nature. We work...

Scope and Contents "Began this book long ago with several others. Not had them for years. Things have changed. . . . Life no less interesting as lived but have philosophical doubts." (page 47) "Man's self the principal thing." (page 67) "Real knowledge can be tested. It will bear the light of a review." (page 69) "I see no reason on earth why mammal skeletons older than Tertiary not...