![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are not many individuals with whose character the public welfare and improvement are more intimately connected, than the author of A Vindi|cation of the Rights of Woman. Prevail on myself to doubt, that the more fully we are presented with the picture and story of such persons as the subject of the following narrative, the more generally shall we feel in ourselves an attachment to their fate, and a sympathy in their excellencies. The human species at large is interested in this justice, as it teaches them to place their respect and affection, upon those qualities which best deserve to be esteemed and loved. The justice which is thus done to the illus|trious dead, converts into the fairest source of animation and encourage|ment to those who would follow them in the same carreer. Every benefactor of man|kind is more or less influenced by a liberal passion for fame and survivors only pay a debt due to these benefac|tors, when they assert and establish on their part, the honour they loved. It cannot happen that the public at large should be on a footing with their intimate acquaintance, and be the ob|server of those virtues which discover themselves principally in personal in|tercourse. It seldom happens that such a person passes through life, without being the subject of thoughtless ca|lumny, or malignant misrepresentation. IT has always appeared to me, that to give to the public some account of the life of a person of eminent merit deceased, is a duty incumbent on sur|vivors. ![]()
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