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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, 1879.
I keep working, because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.
But in trying to help others, it is sometimes difficult to decide what is good.
I have several poor souls in tow, trying to guide them into comfort through righteous paths.
But I make them so dependent that I sometimes feel I do them harm rather than good.
Yet what is to be done?
They are so ignorant and weak-minded, they cannot rely upon themselves.
I admired the spirit of Mr. Curtis's Letter, and I entirely agree with the principle he inculcates.
I have always resisted the idea of conventions and caucuses dictating to individuals how they shall vote.
It is utterly subversive of republicanism, and would make an oligarchy of the government.
I thank him cordially for speaking a true word, which greatly needed to be spoken.
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
To the same. Wayland, 1879.
I think there is sufficient evidence of another state of existence, and of the possibility of communication.
But beyond this glimpse, I think it is all precarious and unreliable.
One had better spend his life in chasing shadows than in seeking for these manifestations.
But I agree with Victor Hugo, who says: To elude a phenomenon, to turn our backs upon it laughing, is to make bankruptcy of truth.
The phenomenon of the ancient tripod, and of the modern table-turning, has a claim to be observed, like all other phenomena.
Root out the worthless weeds of error, but harvest the facts.
When was chaff made a pretext for refusing the wheat?
Science pronounces it entirely illogical to suppose that we exist as individuals after our bodies are resolved into the elements.
But logic is a science extremely narrow in its limitations.
There may be phases of existence as much beyond its cognizance as birds are beyond the observation of fishes.
Since Emerso