"Dabney believed that Union Seminary was a necessary bulwark against the concentration of power in a single institution, such as Princeton Theological Seminary. "Suppose that such an institution [were] training all or nearly all the ministers of our church, and consequently becoming the fountain of literary and theological opinion for the whole church," Dabney wrote. "The result would be most un-Presbyterian and dangerous, even while this school remained orthodox." And if this school were to begin to teach heresy, such an institution "might spread its poison unresisted through the whole body." Hence, Union Seminary was vitally necessary and deserved the support of the Synods of Virginia and North Carolina" (Sean Michael Lucas, Robert Lewis Dabney, 64).
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