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Addams's own religious beliefs were shaped by her wide reading and life experience.

By the time she had graduated from Rockford Seminary, she knew the Bible and especially the New Testament, thoroughly, having studied it throughout her young life, including in college courses.

She had also been required to memorize a verse from the Bible every day at Rockford, and listen to a short sermon on the daily verse by the school's principal.

Evidence of this deep familiarity with Scripture can be found throughout her later writings.