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1 Phila. Inquirer, Sept. 2, 1830.
2 Of the Motts he afterwards wrote: ‘Though I was strongly sectarian in my religious sentiments (Calvinistic) at that time, and hence uncharitable in judgment touching theological differences of opinion, . . . yet they manifested a most kind, tolerant, catholic spirit, and allowed none of these considerations to deter them from giving me their cordial approbation and cheering countenance as an advocate of the slave. If my mind has since become liberalized in any degree, (and I think it has burst every sectarian trammel.)—if theological dogmas which I once regared as essential to Christianity, I now repudiate as absurd and pernicious,—I am largely indebted to them for the change’ (Lib. 19.178; Life of James and Lucretia Mott, pp. 296, 297).
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