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Mighty Jonathan Edwards,--the only genius since Dante akin to Dante,--could you not see that, if your world exist where there is no hope and where there is no love, there can be no faith?
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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Hoar challenges Jonathan Edwards' view by asserting that a world without hope and love cannot sustain faith.

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