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PREJUDICE. # 83

being conscious of this, I wished to excuse
my injustice by making him out a bad
fellow: so I took a malignant and satirical
View of all he did, and tried my ingenuity to
prove myself just and right. But, my dear

*friend, I am cured of this weakness for ever.

I will go this instant to John, and make him a
due apology for my rudeness and unfairness.”

I hope these* sketches will be sufficient to
show my readers some of the most common
forms in which prejudice operates, and how
it»frequently contrives to cheat and mislead
mankind. Let us all guard ‘against it as a
great enemy to our present and future peace.
It is a fierce and malignant tyrant, always
seeking dominion over us, and When’ once
enshrined in the heart, it is difficult to resist
its influence or cheek its authority.

All those who desife to be free-minded,
fair-minded, just and true, should strictly
examine every personal dislike they feel:
they should be carefyl to analyse it—see
upon what it rests—and if it be unfounded,
if it be but a prejudice, let them cast it out

if they would not harbour an evil spirit i in
the heart. =