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absolute as this was, he found the charge so heavy, that 

 he called upon the Lord to share it with him, or to relieve 

 him from it altogether. Soon after you went out, an 

 Unitarian Priest, upon ray asking what you were going 

 to do in that wild country, said, you were going to form 

 a community, who would be " content to Avorship one 

 •' God." "I hope not," said I, " for he will have 

 " plagues enough without adding a priest to the nura- 

 " ber." But, perhaps, I was wrong: for Aaron was 

 of great assistance to the leader of the Israelites. 



582. As if the inevitable etfects of disappointment 

 and hardship were not sufficient, you had, too, a sort of 

 partnership in the leaders. This is sure to produce 

 feuds and bitterness in the long run. Partnership- 

 sovereignties have furnished the world with numerous 

 instances of poisonings and banishments and rottings 

 in prison. It is as much as merchants, who post their 

 books every Sunday, can do to get along without quar- 

 relling. Of man and M'ife, though they are flesh of 

 flesh and bone of bone, the harmony is not always quite 

 perfect, except in France, where the husband is the 

 servant, and in Germany and Prussia, Where the wife is 

 the slave. But, as for a partnership sovereignty without 

 disagreement, there is but one single instance upon re- 

 cord ; that, I mean, was of the tivo kings of Brentford, 

 whose cordiality was, jou know, so perfect, that they 

 both smelt to the same nosegay. This is, my dear Sir, 

 no bantering. I am quite serious. It is impossible that 

 separations should not take place, and equally impos- 

 sible that the neighbourhood should not be miserable. 

 This is not the way to settle in America. The way is, 

 to go and sit yourself down amongst the natives. They 

 are already setded. They can lend you what you want 

 to borrow, and happy they are always to do it. And, 

 which is the great thing of all great things, you have 

 their women for your xcomen to commune with ! 



583. R.\pp, indeed, has done great things ; but Rapp 

 has the authority of Moses and that of Aaron united in 

 his own person. Besides, Rapp's community observe 

 in reality that celibacy, which IMonks and Nuns pretend 

 to, though I am not going to take my oath, mind, that 

 none of the tricks of the Convent are ever played in 



