Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineauwas a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 June 1802
race understanding independence
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
men lasts heed
Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
class excellence moral
Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.
voice people silent
The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.
religion pursuit temper
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
nature healthy facts
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
believe trying helping
We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
love running country
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
power civilization other-half
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
grief may disappearance
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
book miracle atheism
The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.
queens america evil
A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.
religious philosophy believe
I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening of its meanings can I be made to have any thing whatever in common with them about religious matters... they must take my word for it that there is nothing in common between their theology and my philosophy.
too-late late early-death
I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early ...