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I think there can be found in this country no sectarianism so narrow, so hide-bound, so dogma-clad, that it would like to blot out from the history of the country what the men of our faith have contributed to it.
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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Hoar defends the contributions of Unitarianism to American history against narrow sectarianism.

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