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I laid the greatest stress on the doctrines which 1 hold most important , and in which all Unitarians are agreed , I should , without hesitation , have endeavoured to lead those who still differ from us . a little farther . Nor
do I believe , from all I have observed of the dispositions and views of such persons , that if I preached with the simplicity of truth and in the tone of Christian charity , they would have at all objected to it . At any rate they could not reasonably calculate on our silence , * -
( 8 ) I have only farther to observe , that Mr . BeJsham seems to me to consider the proposed alteration in the Preamble of the Western Unitarian Society , as affecting that of the London . They are perfectly distinct ; have no controul over each other ' s
concerns ; and nothing further to do with each other , than as united \ i \ the same great objects , having several Members in common , and sometimes
co-operating in effecting the publication of works for distribution , and the London Society supplying the Western with books , much in the same manner as the London
bookseller supplies his correspondent in the country . And I imagine there is the same kind of connexion , and no more , between the London Society and the various other Societies in different districts , for the promotion of Uuitarian principles by the distribution of bc *> ks .
1 have now finished all I have to lay before your readers on this subject . If any of my valued friends , ( differing from me on this point , while we unite with cordiality and full consent in so many others , and having
the great interests of Christian truth alike at heart , though not always agreeing in the means of promoting them , ) should think it necessary to make any strictures on what I have said , I pledge myself , as 1 have done on another subject , plainly to express
* I have just observed that Mr . Fox's Voice of Revelation ^ delivered before the London Unitarian Society , and containing statements in favour of the Simple Humanity , was afterwards delivered before the J < l (\ $ tern Unitarian Society , founded , if ! mistake not , on the broad basis .
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any change of opinion they may pro duce , or to acknowledge any error into which I may inadvertentl y have fallen . —If I maintain the silence I wish , I entreat that it may be considered as no mark of disrespect to them ; x but simply as an indication , that my sentiments remain unchanged *
and that I nerceive no advnnto ^ :. * and that 1 perceive no advantage in prolonging the discussion . JLANT CARPENTER . P . S . An illness which suspended all my usual occupations , has prevented my publishing my Reply to Bishop Magee , as I expected , about
this time ; but I hope to advertise it as being published in the same Number in which this Letter will , 1 trust , be sufficiently early to appear . —In the last paragraph of p . 618 , on Divine Influences , 1 noticed duly for onhj % which 1 beg the reader to correct .
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Sir , December 14 , 1819 . IN a former "Number of your Repository ( p . 623 ) appeared a communication signed W . W animadverting upon a recent controversy between two anatomical professors . As no person immediately interested in the reputation of the parties has come forward to notice his remarks ,
you will , I trust , admit a few observations from one who lays claim to no other character in connexion with this business than that of a spectator , known indeed to both the professors , but not the eulogist or the apologist of either . What induces me to
trouble you , is the strange inaccuracy of the statements made by your Correspondent , From the freedom and seventy of his censures , and the tone of authority , quasi ex cathedra , with which he pronounces his
condemnation , a stranger would naturally infer that he was fully master of all the facts of the case ; and that , after his verdict , your readers , simple and wise , had nothing to do but to sit down i « the belief , that the two professors had
" disgraced" themselves , by the " way not very honourable to them , " m which they had conducted and " terminated" their " dispute . " But your readers will , I doubt not , be surprised to learn , 1 . That there was , " during the last winter , no " controversy
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750 Correct Statement of Medical Dispute on the Origin of Vitality
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/34/
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