The third movement from a cantata by Wally Kleucker, "The Seven
Principles" for narrator, soloist, mixed chorus and orchestra.
The third principle of the Unitarian Universalist Association is "acceptance
of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations."
Growth is an important theme of the Unitarian author of the text, Sarah
Margaret Fuller.
Fuller was born on May 23, 1810 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some have
called her
America's first true feminist. most prominent woman among the American
Transcendentalists, a friend of Emerson, and the author of Woman in
the Nineteenth
Century, Fuller was among the first writers to report on asylum conditions
in the nineteenth century. We have Fullers words:
"Very early I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a
butterfly.
If you have knowledge let others light their candles in it."
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