1845—
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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“The ministry of man implies, that he must be filled from the divine fountains which are being engendered through all eternity, so that, at the name of his master, he may be able to cast all his enemies into the abyss; that he may deliver all parts of nature from the barriers that imprison them; that may purge the terrestrial atmosphere from the poisons that infect it; that he may preserve the bodies of men from the corrupt influences that surround, and the maladies that afflict them; still more, that he may keep their souls pure from the malignant insinuations which pollute, and the gloomy images that obscure them; that he may restore its serenity to the Word, which false words of men fill with mourning and sadness; that he may satisfy the desires of the angels, who await from him the development of the marvels of nature; that, in fine, his world may be filled with God, as eternity is.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Fuller quotes at length from the work she identifies in a footnote as '* St. Martin.' This is Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (1743–1803), the French theosophist known as 'le philosophe inconnu' (the unknown philosopher). Fuller identifies the passage as written 'by an earnest mind of a foreign land, written some thirty years ago' — consistent with a work published c. 1802