# Flowers and fruit from the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Fairfield, Abbie H. [Compiler]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72864

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Flowers+and+fruit+from+the+writings+of+Harriet+Beecher+Stowe+Stowe&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When a finely constituted nature wishes to go into baseness, it has first to bribe itself. Evil is never embraced, undisguised, as evil, but under some fiction which the mind accepts, and with which it has the singular power of blinding itself in the face of daylight. The power of imposing on one’s self is an essential preliminary to imposing on others. The man first argues himself down, and then he is ready to put the whole weight of his nature to deceiving others.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/flowers-and-fruit-from-the-writings-of-harriet-beecher-stowe-72864/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/flowers-and-fruit-from-the-writings-of-harriet-beecher-stowe-72864/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/flowers-and-fruit-from-the-writings-of-harriet-beecher-stowe-72864/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/flowers-and-fruit-from-the-writings-of-harriet-beecher-stowe-72864/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/flowers-and-fruit-from-the-writings-of-harriet-beecher-stowe-72864/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/flowers-and-fruit-from-the-writings-of-harriet-beecher-stowe-72864/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/flowers-and-fruit-from-the-writings-of-harriet-beecher-stowe-72864/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/flowers-and-fruit-from-the-writings-of-harriet-beecher-stowe-72864/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/flowers-and-fruit-from-the-writings-of-harriet-beecher-stowe-72864/chapters/7/index.md)