“Seek to revenge no injury. You see now – do not you – a little more clearly why I wrote that ? what strain there is on the untaught masses of you to revenge themselves, even with insane fire ?

Alas, the Taught masses are strained enough also; - have you not just seen a great religious and reformed nation, with its goodly Captains, - philosophical, sentimental, domestic, evangelical-angelical-minded altogether, and with its Lord’s Prayer really quite vital to it, - come and take its neighbor nation by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me that thou owest’?

Seek to revenge no injury; I do not say, seek to punish no crime: look what I hinted about failed bankers […]”

Fors Clavigera (Letter Seven: Charitas, Denmark Hill, 1st July 1871)

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