The Mail Coach [1/2]
M M S, pseud. [Mary M Sherwood] *
Genre: | Short Fiction, Serial |
Subjects: | Politics, Mathematics, Navigation |
The female narrator describes having travelled inside the mail coach with three gentlemen, two of whom were discussing their plans for reform. The narrator observes that 'crude reformers [..] almost universally leave the depravity of human nature out of their calculations. As if in computing the progress of a vessel through any given space of ocean, the calculator should forget to take account of opposing tides, and baffling winds' (388). |
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