Letter

 1 Introd   |    instinct and her now fixed principles, to stimulate by believing
 2 Introd   |     you.”~Two years later the principles and tempers of both these
 3 Introd   |     and, if I have gained any principles in my mind, good or bad,
 4 CLXXV    |     There are sharp and clear principles for everyone today that
 5 CLXXXVII |     and, if I have gained any principles in my mind, good or bad,
 6 CLXXXVIII|       time to have done with “principles” and to take up science,
 7 CXCI     |    under a government without principles. The era of positivism in
 8 CXCVII   |   cheapen and compromise your principles. I hope still that you include
 9 CXCVII   |      attacks, against idiotic principles, against furious madness?
10 CXCVII   |  possible where there were no principles; they withdrew from it with
11 CCXVIII  |   perfectly honest. Religious principles are not objected to! The
12 CCXXXVI  |     from two lamps, and I had PRINCIPLES. Don’t laugh, very candid,
13 CCXXXVI  |  laugh, very candid, childish principles which have remained with
14 CCXXXVI  |       bottom of their bag: NO PRINCIPLES! and no real intelligence,
15 CCXXXVI  |    personal end. Only one had principles, not all of them good, but
16 CCXXXVI  |       who pretends to hold my principles and acts contrary to them.
17 CCCV     | period have formulated useful principles also, but in an imperishable