It originated among a small group of intellectuals who were reacting against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church, developing instead their own faith centering on the divinity of man and nature. ... Nature gives the alert man fresh images and metaphors for language, providing the man with discipline to devote himself to its study ultimate power: "one after another, his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things, until all the world becomes, at last, only a realized will,.... the double of the man". ... He himself rejected money and possesions, thi...

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