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Title: The Beth Book
Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius

Author: Sarah Grand

Release Date: February 15, 2009 [eBook #28088]

Language: English

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THE BETH BOOK

Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure
A Woman of Genius

by

SARAH GRAND

IAGO. Come, hold your peace.

EMILIA. 'Twill out, 'twill out:--I hold my peace, Sir? no;
I'll be in speaking, liberal as the air:
Let heaven, and men, and devils, let them all
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.
SHAKESPEARE

New York:
D. Appleton
1897.

"_I cannot gather the sunbeams out of the east, or I
would make them tell you what I have seen; but read this
and interpret this, and let us remember together. I
cannot gather the gloom out of the night sky, or I would
make that tell you what I have seen; but read this and
interpret this, and let us feel together. And if you have
not that within you which I can summon to my aid, if you
have not the sun in your spirit and the passion in your
heart which my words may awaken, though they be
indistinct and swift, leave me, for I will give you no
patient mockery, no labouring insults of that glorious
Nature whose I am and whom I serve._"--RUSKIN.

"_The men who come on the stage at one period are all
found to be related to one another. Certain ideas are in
the air. We are all impressionable, for we are made of
them; all impressionable, but some more than others, and
these first express them. This explains the curious
temporaneousness of inventions and discoveries. The truth
is in the air, and the most impressionable brain will
announce it first, but all will announce it a few minutes
later. So women, as most suscept