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Title: Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
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her thought, throwing her back on the ideas which her childhood had received without question; but her buoyant spirit could not remain long submerged, and as the poignancy of grief abated, her mind sought eagerly for clearer vision. In the quiet of her own room, the bounds of thought and of faith stretched wide and wider. Vision often came in a flash: witness the moment when the question of Matthias Claudius, And is He not also the God of the Japanese ? changed from a shocking suggestion to an eternal truth. Witness also the moment when, after reading Paradise Lost, she saw the picture of an eternal evil, of Satan and his ministers subjugated, indeed, by God, but not conquered, and able to maintain against Him an opposition as eternal as his goodness. This appeared to me impossible, and I threw away, once and forever, the thought of the terrible hell which till then had always formed part of my belief. In its place I cherished the persuasion that the victory of goodness must consist in mak-
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JULIA WARD, AET. 22 From the bust by Clevenger now in the Boston Public Library GIRLHOOD 69 ing everything good, and that Satan himself could have no shield strong enough to resist permanently the divine power of the divine spirit. New vistas were opening everywhere before her. She made acquaintance with Margaret Fuller, who read her poems, and urged her to publish them. Of one of these poems, Miss Fuller writes: — It is the record of days of genuine inspiration, — of days when the soul lay in the light, when the spiritual harmonies were clearly apprehended and great religious symbols reanimated with their original meaning. Its numbers have the fulness and sweetness of young love, young life. Its gifts were great and demand the service of a long days work to requite and to interpret them. I can hardly realize that the Julia Ward I have seen has lived this life. It has not yet pervaded her whole being, though I can recall something of it in the steady light of her eye. May she become all attemp

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