1 Tuesday night
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3 Dear Karl Pearson
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5 I went to the Old Baley at 9.30 this morning & have just returned at 6.
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8 I can’t reply to your letter as I would like, especially the most
9interesting part. Yes, I often want to talk to the prostitute, the
10lounger, & the sandwich-board man, & bring them & myself all together,
11but one’s arms are so little.
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13 Yes, one of the things I felt most agonizingly painful when I first
14came to England was that you couldn’t speak to everyone you met in
15the street.
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17 //I think the novel & the press contain all the vice, the selfishness
18& love of money, & love of respectability (doing just as other people
19do) & hypocrisy that damns our age. A three volume novel & a morning
20paper are a terrible & wonderful study to me. Yet here & there there
21are gleams of light.
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23 //I think the Mathematician as much a "man of science" as a
24physiologist. I use always the word science with its broadest
25definition. - Even so, the day may come when the child of exact
26knowledge which we are rearing with so much care & for whom we would
27give our lives, may have swelled himself out into a giant & to crush
28others, sph & the men of that day will may have to fight him, & put
29him in his proper place. I did not express myself clearly. I never do
30just now because I don’t think clearly.
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32 Wednesday morng.
33 I’ve just got your other note. Thank you for it.
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35 Donkin’s only reason for leaving the club is a quite personal one.
36He took great interest in the club. He is very much broken & wounded
37just now. You’ll be kind to him if you meet him?
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39 //Thank you very much about the Mary Wollstonecraft book. They tell me
40the Editor will have to give them me: I thought I should have to buy
41them. But if you will lend them me it would be a great help to me,
42because I can’t promise to write a paper just now but I could just
43do the dry-as-dust work of reading them over again. I only glanced
44through the Rights of Woman before, never read it. But the great point
45of interest in her to me is her life; I mean to treat her as a woman.
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47 //I haven’t had any time to think of Chapman. Is it worth
48quarrelling about? Let the thing go?
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50 //It isn’t the demand for sympathy made on me by others that ever
51distresses me. It’s because I can do so little, & because at the
52very time I am doing away ^trying to do away^ with misery in some
53directions I cause it myself in others.
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55 You won’t say anything to Mrs Cobb about Donkin or me?
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57 Are you very much engaged in the evenings? Could you come in some
58evening & have a talk? I don’t think you ought to do much in the
59evening after your day’s work at lecturing.
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61 If Ed Carpenter comes to spend an evening with me, if I telegraph to
62you would you care to come in We might have rather a good talk.
63Don’t wait for that if you have an evening to spare because he may
64come in the day.
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66 Yours in haste
67 Olive Schreiner
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