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a full corps of professors, they have less than a hundred 

 students. If the money continues to pour in, of course, all 

 the motions can be kept up. But my opinion is that all 

 the hope of the institution lies in its reorganization upon a 

 scientific basis, and I can conceive few things more futile 

 than such a hope. The listeners to the lectures are from 

 100 to 200 insiders and outsiders. The history of Mr. 

 Mann's career is exceedingly impressive. There never was 

 a clearer case of suicide from ignorance of natural laws. His 

 lectures, his letters, his talk, were full of the preaching of 

 natural law. George Combe was his intimate correspond- 

 ent and his model. The clatter of "natural laws" runs 

 through his entire life, and yet he died twenty years before 

 his time from ignorance of the dynamic law that exercise 

 must be followed by rest. He was offered up to the same 

 Moloch as Hugh Miller, and I have a suspicion that George 

 Combe went in the same way. 



NEW YORK, June 2jd. 



DEAR SISTER: The accompanying note to Marble* will 

 explain itself. A box of two hundred twenty-five-cent 

 Havana cigars and $950, making our sum now $7,000 clear. 

 So the Spencer affair is finished, all but the most trouble- 

 some part. I will keep you informed, but have no time 

 to write further now. We sail at twelve to-day. 



Minturn's letter was sent by mail, as appears fur- 

 ther on. 



S. S. CITY OF PARIS, Monday, July 2, 1866. 

 DEAR SISTER AND ALL THE REST OF YOU : We have 

 had an excellent passage on a very fine ship. We reached 

 Queenstown this morning at five o'clock, eight and three 

 quarters days' journey from New York a six-hour longer 

 passage than the one previously. Our weather has been 

 on the whole excellent only two rough days ; the rest of 



* Manton Marble, at that time editor of The World. 



