1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:He ... added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
