It Is The Worst Humiliation And Grievance

I Am Sure That No Traveler Seeing Things Through Author Spectacles Can See Them As They Are.

During The Present Interval Between The Feudal Age And The Coming Time, When Life And Its Occupations Will Be Freely Thrown Open To Women As To Men, The Condition Of The Female Working Classes Is Such That If Its Sufferings Were But Made Known, Emotions Of Horror And Shame Would Tremble Through The Whole Of Society.

Any One Must See At A Glance That If Men And Women Marry Those Whom They Do Not Love, They Must Love Those Whom They Do Not Marry.

It Is Not Quite True That There Are No Good Letters Written In America: Among My Own Circle Of Correspondents There, There Are Ladies And Gentlemen Whose Letters Would Stand A Comparison With Any For Frankness, Grace, And Epistolary Beauty Of Every Kind. But I Am Not Aware Of Any Medium Between This Excellence And The Boarding-school Insignificance Which Characterizes The Rest.

If The National Mind Of America Be Judged Of By Its Legislation, It Is Of A Very High Order ... If The American Nation Be Judged Of By Its Literature, It May Be Pronounced To Have No Mind At All.