If I Believed That The Choice Lay Between A Sacrifice Of The Completest Order Of Biography And That Of The Inviolability Of Private Epistolary Correspondence, I Could Not Hesitate For A Moment. I Would Keep The Old And Precious Privacy,-the Inestimable Right Of Every One Who Has A Friend And Can Write To Him, - I Would Keep Our Written Confidence From Being Made Biographical Material, As Anxiously As I Would Keep Our Spoken Conversation From Being Noted Down For The Good Of Society.
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If I Believed That The Choice Lay
Harriet Martineau
If I Believed That The Choice Lay Between A Sacrifice Of The Completest Order Of Biography And That Of The Inviolability Of Private Epistolary Correspondence, I Could Not Hesitate For A Moment. I Would Keep The Old And Precious Privacy,-the Inestimable Right Of Every One Who Has A Friend And Can Write To Him, - I Would Keep Our Written Confidence From Being Made Biographical Material, As Anxiously As I Would Keep Our Spoken Conversation From Being Noted Down For The Good Of Society.
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