The persecuting spirit has its origins morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow-creatures, intellectually in the assumption that one’s own opinions are infallibly correct.
John Fiske, “The Philosophy of Persecution,” North American Review (D. Appleton & Co., January 1881), No. CXXXII, p. 12.
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