Sunday, December 28:
It is no small thing to peruse world history and be supposed in so doing, to preserve love for the human race. The sole thing that can enter here to retie the thread that has been rent through viewing the whole, is the indestructible feeling of kinship with the people, with the stock from which we have sprung in the first instance. The effect of that here is what we ourselves feel, we have compassion and are anxious to be able to hope, as we do for the fate of our own family. On the other hand, he who is torn away from his stock — that futile phantom, the cosmopolitan — where will he get love of humanity from?