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Identifier: firesidesphinx00repp (find matches)
Title: The fireside sphinx
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950
Subjects: Cats
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and co.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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t I ^HE aggressiveness of our fore-fathers puzzles and repels us.It is the quality which, of allothers, is least comprehensible to theunconcern which we call tolerance, andto the sensitiveness which we call hu-manity. How, we ask ourselves, couldmen have felt cock-sure of things aboutwhich they knew nothing; and whyshould they have deemed it essential to beat theirconvictions into other mens brains ) The speedand sincerity with which principles were translatedinto action five hundred years ago kept all Christen-dom in commotion. People did not then shrug PERSECUTION 53 their shoulders and say, T is a pity NeighbourHearne standeth apart from Church ; or T ispassing strange Dame Gurton should be so mali-ciously disposed. By no means ! They saw to itthat Hearne either went to church, or stood his trialfor heresy; and they brought the sour old womanto a more amiable frame of mind, or to the witchsstake. Neither did they observe with scholarlycomposure that the adoption of the cat by the b

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