The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easil…

Haniel Long
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure. ✨ Haniel Long (1950). A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions
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