unparticipative

Updated: July 24, 2026

Deep down under the squalid exterior, unparticipative in the hideous merriment and recklessness of the criminal, there is another self, a chained and suffering inner man, crying out, in the intervals of intoxication and brutal excesses, like Jonah from the bosom of hell.

John Greenleaf Whittier - Reform and Politics, Part 2, from Volume VII,: The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics: and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism

Deep down under the squalid exterior, unparticipative in the hideous merriment and recklessness of the criminal, there is another self, a chained and suffering inner man, crying out, in the intervals of intoxication and brutal excesses, like Jonah from the bosom of hell.

John Greenleaf Whittier - The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII,: The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics: and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism