It was with ardent horror that the prehistoric man first witnessed a solar eclipse---the sun swallowed by the predator moon until all light ceased and darkness fell on to the land. We, the more enlightened descendants, have also suffered eclipses. One such eclipse was the darkness of evil that fell upon Salem in 1692, when many men and women were accused of compacting with the Devil. These charges were what snowballed into the huge misfortune known …showed first 75 words of 1201 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1201 total…believe that they will be able to resist being caught up in the insanity. However, there is only one way we can truly save ourselves and our neighbors, and that is to study and understand the mistakes that our ancestors and descendants made, and the outcomes that were born from their actions. Once we can understand the mistakes that they made and how to avoid repeating them, then our society will be theoretically trouble free.