Eliphalet Nott was a Presbyterian minister and president of RPI (Union College). While lecturing on the importance of temperance, he states that it would be madness not to innoculate one’s children against small-pox. Even if the child’s chances of dying were only one in 10k. Here, he doesn’t get into any issues of freedom or conscience, just the idea that a Christian who cares about themselves and their family will do something.

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