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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Harriet Martineau (1883 ). (search)
Harriet Martineau (1883).
Remarks at the Unveiling of Miss Anne Whitney's statue of Miss Martineau in the Old South Meeting-House, December 26, 1883.
This was the last public utterance of Mr. Phillips.
Webster once said, that In war there are no Sundays.
So in moral questions there are no nations.
Intellect and morals transcend all limits.
When a moral issue is stirred, then there is no American, no German.
We are all men and women.
And that is the reason why I think we should indorse this memorial of the city to Harriet Martineau, because her service transcends nationality.
There would be nothing inappropriate if we raised a memorial to Wickliffe, or if the common-school system of New England raised a memorial to Calvin; for they rendered the greatest of services.
So with Harriet Martineau, we might fairly render a monument to the grandest woman of her day, we, the heirs of the same language, and one in the same civilization; for steam and the telegraph have made, not