"WE HAVE TO CONTEND AGAINST OUR OWN FANATICISM; FOR I ASSURE YOU, FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATION, THAT THE FASCINATION OF THIS INTERCOURSE IS SO GREAT THAT ITS TENDENCY IS TO LEAD MEN AWAY FROM THEIR PROPER JUDGMENT, AND INSTILL A SPIRIT OF FANATICISM MOST REVOLTING TO THE CALM AND NATURAL MIND."-Judge Edmond's Lecture, in the Broadway Tabernacle, N. Y., February Sixteenth, Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Fire. |