Show MARIA WHITE AND LOWELL bow the antle influence of devoted wile helped th areat poet aba biographers of tames buscell lowell are already pointing ont thattie th atthe main direction of his life wax determined by a woman so many men of lac ridge that it is goof to dwell anthe signal caama of the contrary result when lowall first formed hia attachment to maria whit he was at the parting of the ways he came from college popular and brilliant indeed perilously brilliant with strong literary hut morally his suspension from college on the eve of graduation not come as now charitably suggested suggest jd from irregularity in attendance on prayers but from a more serious indicating a more dangerous possibility i Th athe vaa baked from the reckless career of so many gifted men was partly due of course to his own better na anre but largely to that strongest etron gest influence which can be bringht to bear on a young man of ardent impulses a pure lova toward a noble woman beyond this came and from the same source the substitution of a reformatory spirit for a one here again it is true that the memory of who wrote that clause in tho massachusetts chu constitution which abolished slavery might havo brought him to the side of the abolitionists sooner or later ypatia certain however i that the visible of influence waa maria white in 1838 in hia class poem not delivered by reason of hu ion from college hut printed without hia name and oy himself he denounced and ridiculed tho followers of garrison in 1844 his volume of poems contained a bonnet to wendell phillips identifying the poet fally with the class he had befogs attacked thia waa alao the year of his marriage yet maria white was A singularly gentle in her aspect and manners fair sweet benign ideal and it was beneath the surface that the firmness of purpose lay she had been for time a with her cousin the lato maria D fay of cambridge at the ursaline convent of mount benedict near boston and was thera if 1 mistake not at the time it was burned by a mob this may her with the love of religions freedom I 1 know it had strongly that effect on anft as a boy watching the flames from cambridge she had also been a member of tome of margaret fullers classes and shared their tonic she had also spent much time in the tudy of the rev cantere francis owna man of learning cod a reformer though a mild one at his house she had doubtless met hi aagre potent and energetic bister lydia maria child moreover maria own brother who was adwella Ld wella dasa mate had given ftp else to devote himself to tha antislavery antia lavery agitation be coining an itinerant lecturer in tho cause it was in manner tore gona conclusion teat maria white should be a reformer and equally afsa that her lover he was AS he ha bince bald by temperament pe and education of a conservative tone and it needed a strong influence to transfer him to the progressive side but for many years following indeed up to the time of his first rifea death in 1853 he was in hia general attitude a strops reformers reform erT asig ginson ia bazar 0 a f |