But that is, at most, half of the story. The other half lies in the declining hold of certain forms of Protestantism at mid-century. More specifically, we need to look at Unitarianism and its Universalist offshoot. Cora Hatch was a product of this tradition. These are our conceptions.
Man is free to do right or wrong.
He is here to judge which he will take, right or wrong, but at the same time he is not free to make the wrong permanently triumphant, for it can never be so. The right is the infinite, and consequently it always predominates over ignorance, error, and darkness. It is easy to track the source of these ideas. They derived from William Ellery Channing , a leading Unitarian minister and the founder of Universalism. It is simply the doctrine that Universalists preach.