Worcester, February, 1859
George Curtis lectured here last week. With the most
delicious elocution we have — except perhaps Wendell Phillips's — and a
fascinating rhetoric and an uncorrupted moral integrity, he showed yet a want
of intellectual vigor and training which will always prevent him from being a
great man. Yet he perfectly fascinated everybody.
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters
and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 72
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