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.
"Harriet Martineau" was an English social theorist and Whig (British political party)/Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist.
Martineau wrote many books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and perhaps most controversially, feminine perspective; she also translated various works from Auguste Comte. She earned enough to be supported entirely by her writing, a rare feat for a woman in the Victorian era. A young Queen Victoria/Princess Victoria, (later Queen Victoria), enjoyed reading Martineau's publications. The queen invited Martineau to her Coronation of Queen Victoria/coronation in 1838—an event which Martineau described, in great and amusing detail, to her many readers. Martineau said of her own approach to writing: "when one studies a society, one must focus on all its aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She believed a thorough societal analysis was necessary to understand women's status under men.
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
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