The Avenger
by Thomas De Quincey
"Why
callest
th
me
murderer,
and
not
rat
the
wrath
of
God
burning
after
the
st
of
the
oppressor,
and
cleansing
the
earth
when
it
is
wet
wi
blood?"
That
series
of
terrif
events
by
which
our
quiet
ci
and
university
in
the
northeastern
quarter
of
Germany
were
convulsed
dur
the
year
1816,
has
in
itse
and
considered
merely
as
a
blind
moveme
of
human
tiger-passion
rang
unchained
among
men,
something
too
memorable
to
be
forgotten
or
left
with
its
own
separate
rec
but
the
mor
lesson
impres
by
these
events
is
yet
more
memorable,
and
deserves
the
de
attention
of
com
generations
in
their
stru
after
human
improvement,
not
merely
in
its
own
lim
field
of
intere
directly
awakened,
but
in
all
analogous
fie
of
interest;
as
in
fact
al
and
more
than
onc
in
conne
with
these
very
events,
this
les
has
obtained
the
effectual
attention
of
Christian
kings
and
pri
assembl
in
congr
No
trag
indeed,
among
all
the
sad
ones
by
wh
the
charities
of
the
human
hea
or
of
the
fires
have
ever
been
outraged,
can
better
merit
a
separa
chapt
in
the
pr
history
of
German
manne
or
social
life
th
this
unparallel
case.
And,
on
the
oth
hand,
no
one
can
put
in
a
better
cla
to
be
the
hi
than
myself.
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