“Every terrible thing in the world was caused by a whole combination of things. But everybody wanted to narrow it down to one cause—and not even the real one. Much better to have one cause—one person to punish. Then the unbearable could be borne.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 3 “Fever” (p. 56).
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