[Letter] March 29,[1893],[Northampton] [to F.H. Giddings]

March 29, [1893], [Northampton]

Dear Friend,
       The pamphlet
greatly interests and
edifies me. If I take
issue anywhere it is
on your own grounds.
Is the must valid
in the sentence that says
increased progress is a priori
bound to cause absolute -
not relative -increase of suffering?
I should say progress
brings capacity for ever
quicker and easier
reorganization. This
susceptibility to structural
change is a marked
feature of actual and
recent progress. Ergo
we have this sequence;
(1) quickened mechanical
invention etc.; (2) proportionate
increase of facility on part of
artizans, for avoiding the
evils of the Watt, Arkwright
age; (3) less and less danger
of the misadjustment spoken
of by you in the next sentence.
 I am deep in house planning.
Come and see my lot and my
drawings. The most radical question is
whether to build at all; and this is
not yet decided. Still I can get no good
house at Amherst in any other way.
I would like to avoid driving so deep a stake
in the soil of Amherst hill before knowing
definitely that I wish to live permanently there.

             Yours Very Truly,
                  J. B. Clark