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Harriet Martineau Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 12th June, 1802 |
| Death: | 27th June, 1876 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Writer |
About
Harriet Martineau was born in Norwich, England. She was a British social theorist and Whig writer. She 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 wrote several books include: Society in America, Illustrations of political economy(novel), The hour and the man, The Crofton boys, Household education, Deerbrook(novel), The settlers at home, and The billow and the rock.
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