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Idalia [electronic resource]: a romance . nts and Martyrs have equalled The Pure Ore of her nature was but hidden under the cross of worldhness, and the scorching fire of sufferingrevealed one of the tenderest hearts, and one of the Bravest Natures that history records, (Which will haunt all who have studied that tremendous drama, TWE ) When one reflects thata century which considered itselfenlightened, of the most refinedcivilization, ends with public actsof such barbarity, one begins todoubt of Human Nature ittdf,and fear that the brute which inalways in Human Nature, h
Idalia [electronic resource]: a romance . nts and Martyrs have equalled The Pure Ore of her nature was but hidden under the cross of worldhness, and the scorching fire of sufferingrevealed one of the tenderest hearts, and one of the Bravest Natures that history records, (Which will haunt all who have studied that tremendous drama, TWE ) When one reflects thata century which considered itselfenlightened, of the most refinedcivilization, ends with public actsof such barbarity, one begins todoubt of Human Nature ittdf,and fear that the brute which inalways in Human Nature, hasthe ascendancy J—Gower. Power itself hath not one-half the Might of Gentleness. She who Kocks the CradleRules the World. Extinguish all emotions ofheart and what differences willremain? I do not say betweenman and brute, but between Manand mere inanimate Clod 1 —Cicebo. The Unspeakable Grandeur of the Human Heart. The Drying up of a slngl etearhasmore HonestFamethan Shedding SEAS OFG0REI1! All Hope of Succour but from Thee is Pastl. What is Ten Thousand Times more Horrible than Eevolution or War ? ^OUTRAGED NTiLTXJJRE! O World I O men ! what are we, and our best designs, that we must work by crime topunish crime, and slay, as if death had but this one gate?—Btron. What is Ten Thousand Times more Terrible than Revolution or War? Outraged Nature !8he kills and kills, and is never tired of killing, till she has taught man the terrible lessou heis so slow to learn—that Nature is only conquered by obeying her . . Man has his courtesiesin Eevolution and War; he spares the woman and child. But Nature is fierce when she isoffended; she spares neither woman nor child. She has no i ity, for some awful but most goodreason. She is not allowed to have any pity. Silently she strikes the sleeping child with as littleremorse as she would strike the strong man with musket or the pickaxe in his hand. On ! wouldto God that some man had the pictorial eloquence to put before the mothers o
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