According to emerson, why do people deprecate assaults on religious, learned, and civil institutions?

People deprecate assault because for them, assaults to religious, learned and civil institutions, is also assaults to the property.

Ralph Waldo Emerson detailed in his essay, "Self-Reliance", that men have esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property. Thus, assault to these are assault to property. Their esteem is measured by what they have, and not what they are. 

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