unharming

Updated: May 8, 2025

To be let alone to be suffered to escape in our own way, unharming, unharmed, through the dim avenues of life was assuredly all that we asked from man. Perhaps I say it without cant this, perhaps, was all that we possibly asked from heaven. This was all that I asked, at least, and this was much. It was asking what had never yet been accorded to humanity.

William Gilmore Simms - Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story