“[Unitarianism is] a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.”

—  Erasmus Darwin

Quoted by Charles Darwin in a letter http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-00115-00015/5 to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 11 May 1859 http://books.google.com/books?id=YMERco2uLdcC&q=%22a+feather+bed+to+catch+a+falling+Christian%22&pg=PA158#v=onepage

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English physician, botanist; member of the Lunar Society 1731–1802

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