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Anna Kingsford
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“... it may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and headpieces, but the text is that of former editions handed down from generation to generation.”
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“There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity. ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of spirit. All of us are over-dressed; no man knows what heart beats in his neighbour's bosom.”
Anna Kingsford, English anti-vivisectionist, theosophist, women's rights activist
(1846 - 1888)
Full name: Anna Bonus Kingsford.