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It is natural that we should fear those whom we are conscious of having deeply injured, and all history and experience testify that fear is a cruel passion.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “It is natural that we should fear those whom we are conscious of having deeply injured, and all history and experience…”
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Tappan reflects on the psychological impact of guilt and fear in historical contexts of oppression.
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Do you ask that your children may be rescued from the ignorance and irreligion to which they are now doomed, and that avenues may be opened for you and for them to honest and profitable employment?
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.
In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.