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What does it mean?
This is a directive or reference rather than a substantive statement.
In plain terms
This points to where essays by Martineau can be found.
What can you take from it?
Source reference for further reading.

Where it applies

  • research
  • academic citation

Putting it to work

  • finding primary sources

Questions to consider

  • Where might you find more?
  • What else did she write?

Another view

Not a philosophical quote but a citation.

More from Harriet Martineau

  1. What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of te…

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  2. Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

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  3. For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen ... than witness the subservience in which the …

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