Essay -: Imperfect sympathies
Author -: Charles Lamb
Written -: 1821
Published -: 1821, London Magazine
Theme -: Earnestness, Contempt and Anger
About -: Caledonians (A person from Scotland, Scotchmen)
African-American = Negroes (Black People)
Quakers (Religious People)
Jews
Religio Medici (1643) = The Religion of a Doctor by Sir Thomas Browne.
Charles Lamb begins the essay by quoting from Browne’s Religion Medici:
“I am of a constitution so general, that it consorts and sympathies with all things; I have no antipathy, or rather idiosyncrasy in anything. Those narrow prejudices do not touch me, nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch.”
1. Caledonians (A person from Scotland, Scotchmen),
2. African-American = Negroes (Black People)
3. Quakers (Religious people) -: A member of the Religious Society of Friends. Christian movement (c. 1650) George Fox. Devoted to peaceful principles.
Central to the Quakers' belief is the doctrine of the “Inner Light,”
or
sense of Christ's direct working in the soul. This has led them to reject both formal ministry and all set forms of worship.
4. Jews
1. Caledonians (A person from Scotland, Scotchmen),
Lamb accuses Browne of being -:
“Mounted upon the airy stilts of abstraction.”
“Worthy man who upon another count cannot be my mate or fellow. I cannot like all people alike.”
(Charles Lamb)
2. African-American = Negroes (Black People)
"In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity.” (about Negroes, Charles Lamb)
“But I should not like to associate with them, to share my meals and good nights with them-because they are black.”
(about Negroes (Black People), Charles Lamb)
3. Quakers (Religious people) -: A member of the Religious Society of Friends. Christian movement (c. 1650) George Fox. Devoted to peaceful principles.
Central to the Quakers' belief is the doctrine of the “Inner Light,”
or
sense of Christ's direct working in the soul. This has led them to reject both formal ministry and all set forms of worship.
4. Jews -:
“In the abstract, no disrespect for the Jews. But I should not care to be in the habits of familiar intercourse with any of that nation.” (about Jews, Charles Lamb)
“Not relish the approximation of Jews and Christians.”
“I never heard of an idiot being born among them.” (about Jews, Charles Lamb)
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