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Excerpt from An Illustration and Defense of Universalism as an Idea, in a Series of Philosophical and Scriptural Discourses
Those who have been the first to submit to the authority of tradition, and the last to relinquish their confidence in the absurd and improbable speculations of Visionary minds, have been most alarmed for the safety of the bold free spirit that dared to scan the Creator's works, and the record Of His word. Some men impose a most effectual restraint upon their reason, while they leave the imagination to wander uncontrolled in the regions Of conjecture. The religion of such persons is a species of fanaticism that serves to obscure the interior vision, and to pre vent an accurate perception of things. Under this in?uence, they readily believe the wildest chimeras of heathen poets, while they reject the sublime results of reason and analogy.
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