I took this photo of a plaque dedicated to Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan).
It's located on Kildare Street, Dublin, Ireland,
where she lived for a while in the early 19th century.
In her book, Patriotic Sketches of Ireland (1807), Sydney Owenson observes political philosophy in the following manner:
...an extension of the mind’s eye to the whole great scale of civil society, and demonstrating the close-linked dependencies of its remotest parts, affords to the benevolence of the human heart, and the comprehension of the human understanding, a social system, gratifying to the feelings of the one, and ennobling to the faculties of the other. (Owenson, 33)
Here, Owenson illumines her reading audience with the possibilities of revolution through an elevated human consciousness. Particularly, she mentions "benevolence of the human heart." Currently, in our world, political leaders need to focus on the strength found between each heartbeat, that electro-magnetic force guiding each human mind and make their decisions appropriately.
