Saturday, August 19, 2023
Angry Words
Bruce Catton (1899-1978), This Hallowed Ground (Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956), p. 1:
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Yet angry words were about the only kind anyone cared to use these days. Men seemed tired of the reasoning process. Instead of trying to convert one's opponents it was simpler just to denounce them, no matter what unmeasured denunciation might lead to.Id., p. 3:
He had not been trying to persuade. No one was these days; a political leader addressed his own following, not the opposition. Sumner had been trying to inflame, to arouse, to confirm the hatreds and angers that already existed.
