James II did not remain King, so this Declaration did not abide, and it began as an effort to increase Puritan power to offset Anglicanism. James, of course, sought to advance Catholicism.
The Declaration is included here to indicate beyond all the politics of such declarations how strong was the growing movement toward a wide religious toleration.…
“Act of Religious Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience”
King John Sigismund (1540 – 71) at the Diet of Torda (1568)
Three translations of this short act are given. The first which appears in David B. Parke’s The Epic of Unitarianism (Starr King, 1957) is by the Sate Alexander St.…
This book of Unitarian Universalist history is the only such major work in print (1991). As such it has to be assigned for any history course and so it is assumed that students will already be familiar with it.…
Owen D. Young was born in Van Hornesville, New York, on October 27, 1874. He was 16 years old when his parents mortgaged the farm to send him to St. Lawrence University at Canton, N.Y., a Universalist educational institutional which was part of his family’s liberal religious lifelong affiliation.…
Harvard Square Library is pleased to present below the full text of Louise Carnegie’s autobiography and an excerpt from the autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.