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Frances Power Cobbe

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Also known as Merlin Nostradamus, Frances Cobbe, Frances Power

Irish writer, philosopher, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading suffragist (1822-1904)

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Works
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Top works

  • Discourses of Social Science . by : Theodore Parker : Edited by : Frances Power Cobbe ... Volume 7
  • Duties of Women, a Course of Lectures
  • Re-Echoes
  • Darwinism in Morals
  • Religious Duty

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Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1972-01-21
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Quotes

  • The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.
  • I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.
  • We can benefit our kind in no way so much as by being ourselves pure and upright and noble-minded.
  • I could not bear it did I not believe in another life for the poor harmless victims where their wrongs will be recompensed, & I may add also in another life for their inhuman persecutors where they will all repent in moral agony worse than the physical pain of their poor victims.
  • We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.
  • He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity and her servility, will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

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