It is called proactive interference.
it is simply the tendency for previously learned information,material and knowlidgeto hinder acquisition and leraning of new information. it exhibits in difficulty when you are faced with a new but simple incident,and you are not willing to learn it because you believe you are already informed.
Extreme abolitionists did more harm than good because they
tended towards extreme militancy, and with their use of virulent words, the extreme
abolitionists turned off Southerners to their cause. This did more harm than
good, first to the slaves, then also the abolition cause in general.
I believe the answer is: <span>less accepting of the idea that humans are rational animals
He believes that human are animals that completely have to restraint themselves from irrational/animalistic instinct.
He doesn't buy the notion that humans are inherently good like what being preached by religious establishments, which make him regarded as the enemy of the church at that time</span>
The middle colonies had Pennsylvania and Maryland. Pennsylvania was built on Quaker value, and Maryland was a place of religious tolerance, saying that there was no set religion. New England colonies were probably mainly Christian or Catholic