Did You Know?

Did you know that profanity was viewed as a weakness of intellect? 

Profanity A Sign of Ignorance

The vulgar sin of profanity is more common than formerly in the public streets. We wish all addicted to that habit could understand how vulgar it is, and how generally it is accepted as a proof of an empty head and a weak will. The North American Review says well: 

“There are among us not a few who feel of obvious facts will pass for nothing, unless they swear to-its truth by all the names of the Deity, and: blister their lips with every variety of hot and sulphurous oaths. If we observe such persons, we shall generally find that the fierceness of their profanity is in inverse ratio to the affluence of their ideas.

We venture to affirm that the profanest men within the circle of your knowledge are afflicted with a chronic weakness of the intellect. The utterance of an oath, though it may prevent a vacuum in sound is no indication of sense.”  The Andes Recorder, Thursday, December 5, 1867.