Atheism and Pantheism
A Lecture Delivered Before the Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement in the City of Albany, on Friday Evening, March 10, 1848 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Atheism and Pantheism: A Lecture Delivered Before the Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement in the City of Albany, on Friday Evening, March 10, 1848

In bringing up the rear of the body of distinguished lecturers who have this season addressed you, I have chosen a subject which, I trust, will not be found unsuitable to the occasion. Anticipated in other themes by some of my predecessors, I have taken refuge in the common-place, but ever momentous question of a God; and from my humble position, I may be able, in the discussion of that question, to throw some light, however feeble, upon the various matters which, from year to year, are brought under your notice, and thus to direct you, so far, both as to the right mode of pursuing your studies - for though retired from the schools, you are still an association of students - and as to the great end whither all your investigations ought to conduct you.

There can be no doubt that, apart altogether from the disclosures of Nature and Revelation concerning a Creator and Ruler of the universe, much that is interesting, profitable and every way worthy of the human intellect, may be evolved from the worlds of matter and of mind.

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