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of speculative truth which can possibly be presented to the human understanding * Now , Sir , all that appears to me necessary to render this objection of no weight , is the institution of a committee invested with proper powers , to determine the qualifications of those who offer themselves for this service .
But since there is such a cry for a learned ministry , how comes it that institutions for this purpose have been and are no better supported ? Or , rather , how is it that at this very moment there is but one in the kingdom , and that not having a fund sufficient to support half a dozen students ? The one lately at Exeter , under the direction of the much-lamented Mr .
Kenrick ( whose death is a great ^ public loss , a loss to the cause of truth and virtue ) , never was able * during the space of five years , to support more than two at the farthest . I cannot even contemplate this without the strongest emotions , mingled with regret and disgust . It were an insult to our understandings to be told , that it would not be possible , with a very easy , nay
the slightest exertion on the part of the Unitarians * to establish at least two very respectable academies , fully adequate to the support of a dozen students in each . There never was a more general want of ministers : many societies have been dissolved on this account , and others arelikelv to be dissolved , if
something be not shortly done . On looking at the state of the Manchester college , now removed to York , we shall find the names of many wanting , who ought to have been the first and foremost in its support . It is but a poor excuse , indeed , for any one to allege , *< that it is quite out of my sphere ; if there were an institution of this kind nearer me , I would then give it my assistance , 7
&c . > If there be but one place of education for Unitarian ministers in the kingdom , that place ought to receive the support of every one ( in that connection ) capable of affording it any : this is so clear , that I wonder any person in his senses should think otherwise : for instance , I do not dispute the propriety
of those in the West of England giving their preference to an academy in that part , rather than to one in the North ; but when there is no longer any in the West , is it therefore a sufficient reason for , them to withhold their assistance from that in the North ? It would be just as reasonable for a man to maintain j that because he cannot do all the good he could wis / i , he is
therefore under no obligation to do all the good he is able The question is simply this : do those of the Unitarians who refrain from giving their support to an institution for the education of ministers among them , because it is in a distant part of the country from that in which they dwell—do they think ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/27/
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