“At such moments the voice of reason always sounds like blasphemy and dissenters are of the devil.”

— Marion L. Starkey

Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 7, “John Proctor’s Jade” (p. 102)

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American historian & writer 1901–1991

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