A Series of Lectures on the Doctrine of Universal Benevolence

Kneeland in his Universalist prime — a decade and a half before his drift into freethought made him the last man jailed for blasphemy in Massachusetts. These Philadelphia lectures argue the doctrine of universal benevolence with the aggressive logic that marked everything he did; he was then a colleague of Ballou and co-compiler of the 1808 hymnbook (also in this collection). The book preserves the Universalist career that his later notoriety eclipsed.

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