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trust we need not say more , respecting their pure and spiritual tendency . Plato thought that children should suck in iEsop ' s fables with their mother's milk : ive would have them suckled upon ' greater things than these , * —and , among the rest , upon such poems as ' Kilmeny /
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In our last number we endeavoured to lay before our readers what we deem important , though , in some respects , highly obvious considerations , as to the bearings of the present condition of human affairs upon the growth of individual minds . It may be remembered that we were led to the conclusion that , together with
many rare advantages , modern intellect is encompassed by difficulties of unprecedented magnitude and force ;—but that at the same time , in the truths and principles , the precepts and the promises of the Christian revelation , it is provided with abundant strength to meet and grapple with the one , and to avail itself worthily of the other .
Upon reviewing what we then wrote , we perceive , in reference to this latter point , a want of distinctness of statement and cogency of proof , which may perhaps have disappointed many who concurred in our other positions ; and we fear we have laid ourselves open to the charge of broadly asserting what we were incapable of solidly proving . We now hasten to remedy , as far as we can ,
this capital defect , by devoting a few pages to the statement of our views of the subject , in a somewhat more detailed form than we were then able;—simply premising , that if our readers are unwise enough to expect , in an essay like this , anything approaching to a complete discussion of a matter so vast and deep , they
will be greatly disappointed . We aim only at bringing out some of its more prominent features in a distinct and visible shape ; and richly rewarded shall we deem ourselves , should our humble pages be the means of rousing but one tree and gifted mind to the enlightened examination of that gospel wherein are hid c all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge . '
It may be well to observe at the outset that , supposing the Christian religion to be of divine origin , it is an almost irresistible conclusion , —a conclusion at least strong enough to throw the onus probandi on those who maintain the contrary , —that it is fitted to work great things for the intellect , as well as the heart of the
being for whom it was instituted . That Christianity calls for the entire yielding to itself of the whole man , moral , mental , and physical , * a living sacrifice , ' —that it Urgently forbids the reservation of ever so slender a peculium to the service of powers hostile to itself , — -will scarcely be disputed by the avowed , or doubted by the real disciple of our Great Master . Now to imagine ( hat
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ON THE INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
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OH the Connexion between Poetry and Religion . 62 %
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 627, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/51/
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