The Eternal Duration of Future Punishments
Top essay submitted in competition at Cambridge University for The Burney Prize. Topic for year 1851: "The Eternal Duration of Future Punishments is not Inconsistent with the Divine Attributes of Justice and Mercy." Won by George M. Gorham, B.A.
... “Perhaps the greatest part of our sins will be ultimately found to be sins of thought. For all bad actions are preceded by bad thoughts: and many wicked thoughts are entertained besides, which never give rise to overt acts. And thoughts, which are thus multitudinous, and may be sinful in any degree, seem to be entirely independent of time so far as duration is concerned.”