"Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it……" — Charles Caleb Colton

"Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed."

Charles Caleb Colton

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