...f war. But the idealism of this lonely thinker has entered deeply and permanently into the spiritual life of his countrymen, and he will continue to be read by a few of those who still read Plato and Dante . My mother grieves, wrote Benjamin Franklin to his father in 1738, that one of her sons is an Arian, another an Arminian. What an Arminian or an Arian is, I cannot say that I very well know. ...