Society in America: Volume 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781986946599)

"To seize a character, even that of one man, in its life and secret mechanism, requires a philosopher; to delineate it with truth and impressiveness is work for a poet. How then shall one or two sleek clerical tutors, with here and there a tedium-stricken esquire, or speculative half-pay captain, give us views on such a subject? How shall a man, to whom all characters of individual men are like sealed books, of which he sees only the title and the covers, decipher from his four-wheeled vehicle, and depict to us, the character of a nation? He courageously depicts his own optical delusions; notes this to be incomprehensible, that other to be insignificant; much to be good, much to be bad, and most of all indifferent; and so, with a few flowing strokes, completes a picture, which, though it may not resemble any possible object, his countrymen are to take for a national portrait.

Author: Harriet Martineau
ISBN-10: 1986946592
ISBN-13: 9781986946599
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2018
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.64d