Unexcusing

[…]; and this in the most part with a great indifference like that of Scripture history, which sets down, with unmoved and unexcusing resoluteness, the virtues and errors of all men of whom it speaks, often leaving the reader to form his own estimate of them, without an indication of the judgment of the historian.

In the year 1857 we had occasion to note that of all the Quarterlies that reviewed our antislavery struggle, the British was the most ultra antislavery, the most unsparing and unexcusing.

Men could know nothing of the endless storm of being a woman. Nothing of the final strength of a woman, of her toughness, of her unexcusing, unforgiving sense of reality.