Letters of Lydia Maria Child, with a biographical introduction by John G. Whittier and an appendix by Wendell Phillips.

LETTERS. 65
TO THE SAME.
NErW YORK, July 14, 1848.
My bookl gets slowly on. I am not sustained by
the least hope that my mode of treating the subject
will prove acceptable to any class of persons. No
nmatter! I am going to tell the plain unvarnished
truth, as clearly as I can understand it, and let Christians and Infidels, Orthodox and Unitarians, Catlholics and Protestants and Swedenborgians, growl as
they like. They all will growl if they notice the
book at all; for each one will want to have his own
theory favored, and the only thing I have conscientiously aimed at is not to favor any theory.... ow
queer it seems to me to read long arguments to prove
that Philo must have had some idea of the Christian
Trinity! Because Plato stands behind Christ, they
cannot see himn, though his head and shoulders are so
plainly visible. One thing I have learned, in the
course of my labors. It is of no use to ask questions
of others, or seek assistance from them, unless it be
concerning the titles of books which contain the
most trustworthy information. More and more I
feel that every sort of salvation we do attain to in
this life must be worked out by ourselves.
TO ELLIS GRAY LORING.
NEw YonRI, November 7, 1849.
I spent most of last Sunday with Fredrika Bremuer; four oi five hours entirely alone with her.
Mrs. S. very kindly invited me to meet her there.
What a refreshment it was! She is so artless and
1 The Progress of Religious Ideas thro?.qh Stuccessive Ages. By L.
Maria Child. In three volumes. New York, 1855.
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