"We do not believe any good end is to be effected by fictions wich fill the mind with details of imaginary vice and distress and crime, or which teach it… instead of endeavoring after the fulfillment of simple and ordinary duty… to aim at the assurance of superiority by creating for itself fanciful and incomprehensible perplexities. Rather we believe that the effect of such fictions tends to render those who fall under their influence unfit for practival exertion… by intruding on minds which ought to be guarded from impurity the unnecesary knowledge of hell."