The general tendency of his sermons was what would then have been called subversive. In other words, he was on the side of humanity against its oppressors. He loved truth better than he loved Dundas, the Tory tyrant of Scotland. He favoured the ideals (but scarcely one of the actions) of the French Revolution; he hated cruelty ad injustice; and he resolutely refused, now and hereafter, to flatter authority in order to secure preferment.
H. Pearson, The Smith of Smiths (1934), 37
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