An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. To render them useful and permanent, they must be the growth of each particular soil, and the gradual fruit of the ripening understanding of the nation, matured by time, not forced by an unnatural fermentation.


Appendix - Letters Written in Sweden (1796)

Wikisource Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. To render them...

An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. To render them...

An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. To render them...

An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. To render them...