Illustrations of the divine government

The English Unitarian classic of universal restoration: Southwood Smith — physician, sanitary reformer, and Bentham's friend — argued that the divine government aims at, and will accomplish, the ultimate happiness of every creature. Byron read it; American Universalists reprinted it; and its calm utilitarian optimism gave the doctrine a scientific-philosophical respectability distinct from the scriptural argument. A cornerstone of the wider-hope shelf.

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