I was raised a Presbyterian, you know,-regular black-and-blue calvinist,-and what a fellow takes in with his mother's milk sticks by him.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
His mother was a strict calvinist, his father a strong Tory, but a visit to the Continent made him a Freethinker and Radical.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
He studied at Hoxton College, and came out, as he entered, a Tory and calvinist; but making the acquaintance of Holcroft, Paine, and the English Jacobins, his views developed from the Unitarianism of Priestley to the rejection of the supernatural.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler