Why we Fear?

Travelling through darkness, with torches, it enable us not to see amid the darkness, but to see Darkness, &, nature reminds courage how perishable a thing it is.

How foolish are we, to fear something more than others, as you fall from a 1,000 feet or 10,000 feet, what difference does it make?

So true it is that fear looks not, to the effect, but to the cause of the effect.

On the Trials of Travel