. Daughters of genius: a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources. HARRIET MARTINEAU. XXXYIII. HAERIET MARTINEAU. ^^ nryOW I detest benevolent people! Sydney Smith1 I is reported to have said, on looking up from abook he had been reading. Why ? asked his daughter. Because they are so cruel, was his reply. I was reminded of this anecdote upon looking over abook lately published, entitled Harriet Martineaus Auto-biography, which is full of the personal gossip
. Daughters of genius: a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources. HARRIET MARTINEAU. XXXYIII. HAERIET MARTINEAU. ^^ nryOW I detest benevolent people! Sydney Smith1 I is reported to have said, on looking up from abook he had been reading. Why ? asked his daughter. Because they are so cruel, was his reply. I was reminded of this anecdote upon looking over abook lately published, entitled Harriet Martineaus Auto-biography, which is full of the personal gossip that amusesreaders, but gives extreme pain to large numbers of worthypersons who cannot possibly set themselves right with thepublic by correcting the misconceptions of a writer nolonger among the living. Miss Martineau was, doubt-less, a lady who strongly desired the happiness of man-kind, and who had some correct ideas of the mannerin which human happiness is to be promoted. She ren-dered much good service in her day and generation, butshe left this book to be published after her death, whichis unjust to almost every individual named in it, and,most of all, unjust to herself. And the worst of it
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