Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gnawing Memories. In the beginning, says Author Smith, there was evil, and from it flowed the guilts that have kept the South in unhappy restlessness ever since. The evil, of course, was slavery -as visible as an overseer's lash. But the guilts are hidden and unprobed. "We have known guilt without understanding it, and there is no tie that binds men closer to the past and each other than that...
Crooked Canyon. According to the Smith hypothesis, the South could not find peace; its guilt drove it to a collective persecution complex. "Beyond the mountains was the North: the Land of Dam-yankees, where live People Who Cause All of Our Trouble; and at the end of the North was Wall Street, that fabulous crooked canyon of evil winding endlessly through the Southern mind which is, like the dark race, secretly visited by those who talk loudest against...
Lesson for school children: By executive action, outside a court of law, decide that a group advocates revolution. Then forget that in this country guilt is individually determined and presume that any member of a group is automatically a party to that organization's supposed crime...
...Protestantism alone to blame for the split between the two branches of Christendom? In the current issue of the Catholic liturgical monthly, Orate Fratres, the Rev. Joseph Lortz, professor of church history at Germany's Münster University in Westphalia, declares that Roman Catholicism must share the guilt...
...Whatever the guilt that rests upon the Reformers and on those who followed in their wake, it offers no excuse for our minimizing or failing openly to admit our own Catholic guilt. We are basically co-responsible for the divided Christendom of the past four centuries...