From “A Study in Scarlet,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1877, a Sherlock Holmes mystery: “… that and the Ratcliff Highway murders, the article concluded by admonishing the government and advocating a closer watch over foreigners in England. The Standard (newspaper) commented upon the fact that lawlessness outrages of the sort usually occurred under a liberal administration. They arose from the unsettling of the minds of the masses and the consequent weakening of all authority.”
Written in 1877 by a novelist!
It is so true. We don’t learn from history.
Ron Perry
Canyon Country
