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1909 March 27 5:30 PM
Meaning

betical order brought me into intimacy with a noble-hearted,
sterling charactered young gentlemen, Horation Paine, almost the only real
companion I have ever had, in the sense of not only being interested in
the ideas that interested me but also disposed to think along the very paths
of thought that I myself pursued. He and I occupied almost all our
leisure together in reading and discussing Shiller's Aesthetische Poriefe
which was being the first book philosophical work I ever read, took a hold
upon me made an indelible impression upon me.

I may here mention that I am naturally deficient in aptitude
for language. When a new bit of slange comes into vogue, I am about
the last person who ? discovers what it means, and when I come to do
so, it is by requesting somebody to explain it to me. I am very fequently
in its? such doubt about the shade of meaning of some common word, such