English "social reformer, writer".
"Despite deafness and heart disease, she was prominent among English intellectuals of her time; wrote "The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte.""
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are . . .
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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.
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.