It is one of the most vital and growing minds I ever knew.
Besides the inventive, the critical and analytical faculties are strong with her.

How many women do you know who are _religious_, and yet analyse point by point what they believe in?
She lives in the midst of the traditional churches, and is full of reverence by nature; and yet if you knew how fearlessly that woman has torn up the old cerements and taken note of what is a dead letter within, yet preserved her faith in essential spiritual truth, you would feel more admiration for her than even for writing 'Uncle Tom.' There are quantities of irreverent women and men who profess infidelity.

But this is a woman of another order, observe, devout yet brave in the outlook for truth, and considering, not whether a thing be _sound_, but whether it be true.

Her views are Swedenborgian on some points, beyond him where he departs from orthodoxy on one or two points, adhering to the orthodox creed on certain others.
She used to come to me last winter and open out to me very freely, and I was much interested in the character of her intellect.

Dr.Manning tried his converting power on her.