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I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Views, Joy, Mind
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.44, UPNE
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.