I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments…. [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, … in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, … [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.
