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Prejudice has been the cause of more evil in the world than most any other human frailty, and when we examine the nature of it we shall be surprised to see the multiplicity of evils that flow from it.  Prejudice never lands to good - it has always a bad tendency.  It opposes all reason and all argument - It is rash and headstrong and in its mad career tears down without discrimination all that opposes it whether good or bad.  It often usurps the seat of justice and sentences the innocent and good to the most ignominious punishment.  How often do we meet with it in parents - they prohibit their children from forming connections in marriage with those of their choice because perhaps they are not rich or because ancestry has not been sufficiently respectable or may be because they are of a different religion or do not agree with them in politics and in many instances by interfering in these matters they render their children unhappy forever after.  But prejudice is most to be dreaded when it appears in religion and polities.  How many have been tortured and put to death for nothing more than believing, practicing some certain mode of religion.  How many instances in history are there of faithful political officers being either banished or executed to gratify the prejudices of the people or their agents.  There are instances of whole nations being brought to the lowest state of misery and distress by such occurrences.

Mankind as a body are much like children.  They had rather believe themselves wronged, cheated and abused by those in these care they are placed than fairly dealt by A child when scratched with a pin, a thing which were nothing said he would think nothing of, can be made to cry piteously by telling him that the person who scratched him means to do it and that he is very badly hurt and that the fellow who did it ought to be punished, etc.  Nothing is easier to do than by this method to make him bawl and roar like a bull calf.  The same process in substance applied to a mob or the lowest people of society will produce the same effort.

Convince a man against his will and he remains in error still.