Marry
Children — (if
it Please God)
— Constant companion, (& friend in old age) who will feel
interested in one,
— object to be beloved & played with.— —better than a dog anyhow.
— Home, & someone to take care of house
—
Charms of music & female chit-chat.
— These things good for one’s health.— but terrible loss of time.
— My God, it is
intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working,
working, & nothing after all.— No, no won’t do.
— Imagine living all one’s
day solitarily in smoky dirty London House.
— Only picture to yourself a nice
soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps
— Compare
this vision with the dingy reality of Grt. Marlbro’ St.
Marry—Mary—Marry Q.E.D.,
Not Marry
Freedom to
go where one liked
— choice of
Society & little of it.
— Conversation
of clever men at clubs
— Not
forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle.
— to have the expense & anxiety of children
— perhaps
quarelling
— Loss of
time.
— cannot
read in the Evenings
— fatness
& idleness
— Anxiety
& responsibility
— less
money for books &c
— if many children
forced to gain one’s bread.
— (But then
it is very bad for ones health to work too much)
Perhaps my
wife wont like London; then the sentence is banishment & degradation into
indolent, idle fool—
Commentaires
Le mariage de Charles Darwin a lieu en janvier 1839, 6 mois après ce bilan.
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