Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1877 |
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Page 22 - ... the moral conduct of her life. I saw at the same time tokens of a morbid condition of mind, in one or two directions ; — much less than might have been expected, or than would have been seen in almost any one else under circumstances so unfavourable to health of body and mind as those in which she lived ; and the one fault which I pointed out to her in
Page 283 - ... our being, though as old as the creation of man, are still a new doctrine, the elements of a new covenant, even in civilized, republican, Christian America. They are as the bread and wine of the altar, to which all are invited, but of which few partake, because they dread to sign in their own hearts the pledge of truth which may have to be redeemed by martyrdom. For is it not true that those who maintain that all men have an innate divine right to all the means of improvement and happiness within...