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I am myself but an unworthy heretic, but I am of Puritan stock, of the seventh generation, and there is vouchsafed to me, also, some share of that ecstasy and a dim glimpse of that beatific vision.
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Hoar reflects on his Puritan heritage and its influence on his beliefs.
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