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
sex race iron
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?
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 ...
christian wise giving-up
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the pride, and even the final cause of the universe, so do those who have escaped from the Christian mythology enjoy their release from the superstition which fails to make them happy, fails to make them good, fails to make them wise, and has become as great an obstacle in the way of progress as the prior mythologies which it took the place of two thousand years ago.
education men views
Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.
organization latter mischief
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.
way essentials opinion
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
traveler seeing spectacles
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
thinking people modesty
I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.
teacher teaching responsibility
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
thinking speaks-out atheism
My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.
truth diffusion suppression
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.