Congressman Horace Mann to Reverend Theodore Parker, September 25, 1851

WEST NEWTON, Sept. 25, 1851.

REV. T. PARKER.

MY DEAR SIR, — . . . I wish to find a few of the best authorities, taken from as wide a range as possible among heathen and pagan writers, in favor of the higher law. Can you refer me to them? I wish to shame—our Christians by a little pagan morality. . . .

Yours very truly,

HORACE MANN.

SOURCE: Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 350-1