books.google.co.uk - The progressive tendencies went silently on; and step by step the old beliefs were discarded, but always by individuals and churches, and not by associations or general official action. Even before the middle of the eighteenth century there was not only a questioning of the doctrine of divine decrees,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Unitarianism_in_America.html?id=NZt97oFb4EsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareUnitarianism in America