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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Introduction. (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. B. Shaw
To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. Boston, 1878.
I get fresh reinforcement of courage, trust, and hope whenever I hear Mr. Savage preach.
He is a genuine, all-alive man, and in his earnest, straightforward way, he is doing a great work.
He fills my soul so full of electricity that the sparks fly when any sham touches me.
I have been reading all sorts of books: Renan's Jesus, Herbert Spencer's Philosophy, Omar Khayam, etc. What a very French Jesus Renan portrays.
To think of its being all arranged to raise Lazarus, to produce an effect, because public opinion required that he should prove himself a prophet by restoring a dead man to life.
There is a charm about the book, the descriptions are so home-like.
But it is curious to observe how he fluctuates between the decisions of his own reason and his fear of making Jesus seem too human to please his readers.
He represents Jesus as occasionally tacking and veering, adroitly, according to the popular breeze; and he certainly does so himsel
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
To the same. Boston, 1878.
I have three times been to such lectures as are given in the afternoon.
One on Japanese ways entertained me much.
It was by Professor Morse, lately returned from Japan.
He said he was struck with the peculiar cleanliness of all persons, and all places, in Japan.
Their tea houses, or restaurants, were scrupulously neat, made cheerful by a few bright pictures of birds, or flowers, and ornamented mottoes from Buddhist Scriptures, such as Forgive all injuries ; Speak ill of no one, etc. When I came back to our depots and restaurants, said he, and saw on the walls, Beware of pickpockets!
and coarse pictures of pugilists, I thought that we might learn some salutary lessons from Japan.
But they are an extremely courteous people; they are too polite to send us missionaries.
This hit brought cordial applause.
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. B. Russell
To Mrs. S. B. Russell. Wayland, May 24, 1878.
Thanks for your affectionate, cheerful letter.
I am as pleased as a child with a new (loll, to think you liked my little book
Aspirations of the world. A Chain of Opals. Collected, with an Introduction, by L. Maria Child.
Boston, 1878. entirely.
In this secluded place, where people take little or no interest in anything, I love no means of knowing what effect the book produces.
My motive was good, and I tried to write in a candid and kindly spirit.
I leave it to its fate, merely hoping that it may do somewhat to enlarge the bands of human brotherhood.
Personally I have never expected any advantage from the publication of it. If it pays its own expenses I shall be satisfied.
It would mortify me to have the publishers incur debt by it.
It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion.
They want to veil it in a supernatural haze.
They are very
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Anne Whitney
To Miss Anne Whitney. 1878.
You were right in your prediction about your poems.
Many of them are too metaphysical for my simple, practical mind.
I cannot soar so high, or dive so deep; so I stand looking and wondering where you have gone, like a cow watching a bird or a dolphin.
A wag said that when Emerson was in Egypt, the Sphinx said to him, You're another.
I imagine the Sphinx would address you in the same way. I find great beauty in the poems; and of those which I do not understand, I say, as was said of Madame de Stael, Would that the Pythoness were less inspired, or I more intelligent.
My favorites are the Cyba, the Yaguey, the Prospect, and Evening ; all of them, you see, characterized by the plainness of their meaning.
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), List of Mrs. Child first publication as far as ascertained. (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Standard and popular Library books, selected from the catalogue of Houghton Mifflin and Co. (search)