Excerpt from The Lessons of a Life: Harriet Martineau: A Lecture Delivered Before the Sunday Lecture Society, St. George's Hall, Langham Place, on Sunday Afternoon, 11th March, 1877 The pleasantest parts of the book are those in which she treats of her own inner experiences - where the interest is so strong that she forgets that she is revealing herself, and talks naturally, Openly, boldly, without self-consciousness. The least pleasant parts are those in which she speaks of the inci dents of her life, and the people who were connected with her in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.