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PREFACE.
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WueEn noble and distinguished individuals have fiinished
their pilgrimage upon earth, a more general desire is usu-
ally felt to become acquainted with every thing relating to
them — with every thing in connection with them — during
their journey from the cradle to the grave. A wish has
accordingly been expressed in the Old as well as in the
New World, that a sketch of the life of Fredrika Bremer
might be written and published by some person who was
dear to her, —some friend, who fully understood how to
judge of her and her writings, and who was perfectly
acquainted with even the most trifling circumstances of
her life, and able to represent the same faithfully.
It is a matter of great interest to contemplate, in re-
markable characters, the innate natural disposition of the
child, and to watch its development ; but it is more inter-
esting still to mark the outward relations of life, under
which the child has grown up,— and which always have
such a material influence upon the young mind, — the
struggles and the trials it has had to undergo in the posi-
tion in the world in which it has pleased the Almighty to
place it, there to let circumstances and adversities, often
not known by man, be its best teacher. Intellectual and
highly gifted natures are always deeply sensitive; often,
like the sensitive plant, shrinking under the slightest
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