The race of mankind to be swept away, leaving all their cities and works.

Editor's note: the following entries were written between October 1836 and July 1837; no specific date is written in the journal.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.

The race of mankind to be swept away, leaving all their cities and works. Then another human pair to be placed in the world, with native intelligence like Adam and Eve, but knowing nothing of their predecessors or of their own nature and destiny. They, perhaps, to be described as working out this know ledge by their sympathy with what they saw, and by their own feelings.