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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER X
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And at present I by no means desire to die.
So you and others upbraid me with having put myself out of my 'natural place.' What _is_ one's natural place, I wonder?
For the Chinese it is the inner side of the wall.

For the red man it is the forest.

The natural place of everybody, I believe, is within the crust of all manner of prejudices, social, religious, literary.

That is as men conceive of 'natural places.' But, in the highest sense, I ask you, how _can_ a man or a woman leave his or her natural place.

Wherever God's universe is round, and God's law above, there is a natural place.


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