Fichte and Hegel succeeded Kant, all of them philosophers whose mother-tongue was likewise his own, and whose combined influence put him farther off than ever from the solution of that fundamental doubt which constantly grew more perplexing and more painful.

We find him hiring a seat in the Unitarian Church of the Messiah, where Orville Dewey was then preaching, and walking every Sunday a distance of three miles from the foot of Rutgers Street, "because he was a smart fellow, and I enjoyed listening to him.

Did I believe in Unitarianism?
_No! I believed in nothing."_ His active participation in local politics did not continue throughout all these years.

His belief in candidates and parties as instruments to be relied on for social purification received a final blow very early--possibly before he was entitled to cast a vote.

The Workingmen had made a strong ticket one year, and there seemed every probability of their carrying it.