Churches would be converted into lecture-rooms; and preachers, now hurling their anathemas against unrepentant sinners, would become professors of the great principles through and by which the world, and all things, have been brought from the primary condition thus far on their march toward the perfect.
This quote envisions a shift in religious institutions towards education and enlightenment rather than condemnation.
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