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  <mods:abstract>Theodore Parker writes to Francis Convers in regards to seeing him so they can "talk over the state of the Church, sometime before long, I hope." He likens the Dial to "a band of men &amp; maidens, daintily amazed in finery, 'walking in a vain shew." He approves Swedenborg who belongs to pantheistic mystics. He believes theological science must go through stages of hypothesis and experiment. He believes the method is analytical and empirical.</mods:abstract>
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