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Subtle analysis is wholly unreasonable in the case of Miss Martineau herself, and she would probably have been unable to use that difficult instrument in criticising characters less downright and objective than her own. The moment of the Crimean War marked an alarming event in her own life. The doctors warned her that she had a heart disease which would end her days suddenly and soon.
Sidney Webb has gone through a very different sort of self-education from that of Harriet Martineau; but she has not thought more widely, and she will hardly influence her world so much as that stanch fighter of the past. It is the rank and file the average woman for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
JAMES MARTINEAU, "Rationale of Religious Inquiry," p. 108. F. DE LAMENNAIS, "Essai sur l'Indifference en matiere de la Religion," 4 vols. Paris, 1844. Romans 14: 1, 5. THEODORE PARKER, "Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion," pp. 14, 17.
She had long before asked Miss Martineau to tell her whether she considered that any want of womanly delicacy or propriety was betrayed in "Jane Eyre". And on receiving Miss Martineau's assurance that she did not, Miss Bronte entreated her to declare it frankly if she thought there was any failure of this description in any future work of "Currer Bell's."
"Oh, we mean to see everybody now," said Jasmine "we we we think it best, don't we, Primrose?" "Yes," said Primrose, in her gentle tones. "It does not make us think less of dear mamma to see people and and we have decided to go on much as usual now." "You might have admitted me before, dears," replied Miss Martineau "I felt so intensely for you I could never get you out of my head.
And I do, at last, I am sorry to say; and it has been very long, tedious and reluctant work, the learning of the lesson.... Did Henrietta tell you that I heard at last from Miss Martineau, who thought me in Italy, she said, and therefore was silent? What am I doing, to tell you of? Nothing!
One cannot help admiring, however, the indefatigable perseverance and the astonishing fertility of this accomplished novelist. One of the best books on Eastern life in English literature we owe to the pen of a remarkable woman, whose reputation, based as it is on many other works of singular ability, we may take to be of a permanent character Miss Harriet Martineau. She was born in 1802.
The influence of Jane Austen's stories is seen in every chapter; but Harriet Martineau had none of the easy flow, the pleasant humour, the light-handed irony of her model, any more than she had the energetic and sustained imaginative power of Charlotte or Emily Brontë.
Bartholinus, Behr, Benedictus, Borellus, Bonet, the Ephemerides, Marcellus Donatus, Schenck, Vesalius, Schacher, Martineau, and Buffon all discuss the anomalous presence of milk in the male breast. Puech says that this condition is found in one out of 13,000 conscripts.
"The lower orders of the church's workers, the mere runners of her machinery," says Bishop Brooks, "have always been strictly and scrupulously orthodox; while all the church's noblest servants, they who have opened to her new heavens of vision and new domains of work, Paul, Origen, Tertullian, Dante, Abélard, Luther, Milton, Coleridge, Maurice, Swedenborg, Martineau, have again and again been persecuted for being what they truly were unorthodox."
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