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  • Country Life in the South

  • Harriet Martineau
  • Book:
    Retrospect of Western Travel
    Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    02 September 2010, pp 36-62
    First published in:
    1838

  • Summary

    “For Nature here

    Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will

    Her virgin fancies.”

    Milton.

    “These views of the degradation of the Southern States receive a melancholy and impressive confirmation from the general aspect and condition of the country, viewed in contrast with its former prosperity. With natural advantages more bountiful than were ever dispensed by a kind Providence to any other people upon the face of the globe, there is, from the mountains to the sea coast, one unbroken scene of cheerless stagnation and premature decay.”

    —Southern Review,vol. ii., p. 513.

    There was no end to the kind cautions given me against travelling through the Southern States; not only on account of my opinions on slavery, but because of the badness of the roads, and the poverty of the wayside accommodations. There was so much of this, that my companion and I held a consultation one day, in our room at Washington, spreading out the map, and surveying the vast extent of country we proposed to traverse before meeting my relatives at New Orleans. We found that neither was afraid; and afterwards that there was no cause for fear, except to persons who are annoyed by irregularity and the absence of comfort. The evil prognostications went on multiplying as we advanced: but we learned to consider them as mere voices on the mountain of our enterprise, which must not deter us from accomplishing it.

  • Priestley

  • Harriet Martineau
  • Book:
    Retrospect of Western Travel
    Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    02 September 2010, pp 175-198
    First published in:
    1838

  • Summary

    “Ingrata Patria!”

    Dante's Epitaph.

    “Que l'homme donc s'estime son prix.—il a en lui la capacité de connôitre la vérité, et d'être heureux: mais il n'a point de vérité, ou constante, ou satisfaisante. Je voudrois donc porter l'homme à, désirer d'en trouver; à être prêt et dégagé des passions pour la suivre où il la trouvera.”

    —Pascal.

    Among the select classes of men to whom the common race looks up with the heart-throb of mingled reverence and sympathy, none is perhaps so eminent as that of sufferers for opinion. If ever we are conscious of a breathing of the God-head in man, it is in the sanctified presence, actual or ideal, of martyrs to truth. Such men, as a class, are liable to particular faults, are usually marked by the imperfections which attend their virtues, as shadows are a consequence of sunshine. But in no case are men in general so tolerant of faults as in theirs;—I do not mean in their own day, when they are not commonly recognised as confessors and martyrs,—but when they stand out from the records of time, complete characters in history. The turbulence, jealousy, and self-will of such men are allowed for more liberally than the same faults in other orders of men,—more slightly noticed,—more eagerly extenuated. And why? Because, of all men, they most infallibly and extensively command sympathy.

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