“None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.”

— Lydia Maria Child

1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/59/12260.html, vol. 1, letter 34

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