I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the ...man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homa...ge to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fellow citizens, I have been called upon to conduct this opening meeting of the Osage First Methodist-Episcopalian-Presbyterian-Co...ngregational-Baptist-Catholic-Unitarian-Hebrew Church.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The kind of Unitarian Who having by elimination got... From many gods to Three, and Three to One, Thinks why not taper off to none at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Ac...taeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... today we round out the first century of a professed republic,--with woman figuratively representing freedom--and yet all free,... save woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bo...ne, but to set it, Sir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They tell us that women can bring better things to pass by indirect influence. Try to persuade any man that he will have more weig...ht, more influence, if he gives up his vote, allies himself with no party and relies on influence to achieve his ends! By all means let us use to the utmost whatever influence we have, but in all justice do not ask us to be content with this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the wil...l, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »