worsethan

Updated: May 8, 2025

Every attempt at reform the parent of worse scandals; every mercy begetting fresh cruelties; every persecutor silenced, only to enable others to persecute him in their turn: every devil who is exorcised, returning with seven others worsethan himself; falsehood and selfishness, spite and lust, confusion seven times confounded, Satan casting out Satan everywhere from the emperor who wantons on his throne, to the slave who blasphemes beneath his fetters.

Charles Kingsley - Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face