We are slowly sweeping forth out of the shadows into the glory of a day brighter than has ever yet dawned upon the earth…Ignorance, want, suffering, selfishness, dissension and conflict are not the hard necessities of our being. There is something above and beyond these yet in store, for us.
Thomas Baldwin Thayer, “The Elements and Results of the Social Revolution,” Universalist Quarterly (1847) p. 271 (Universalist, theologian, Universalist Quarterly editor, minister)