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mind and feeling , he mustrperait m to ^^^ a ^ than in anger , " wholly unworthy of bis former reputation , and of th ^^ ause wlh ( fote ]^|^^ , ' ^ % It has ^ ip ^ J&min ^^ iB ^ ^^ BfroM ^ . writ ^ m preeiate their opponents by applying to thenv epithets of reproaekaaicoateragl inj ^^ t ^ unjust
aiTai gai ||^ ij ^ i ) f : and insinuatiag suspicionso&theptflttyof their motives . Such preludes have been thought useful expedients to screw up their own courage for the attack ; or , by raising a pi ^^^ ej ^ aios ^ A ^ f adversaries , to inlist the passions of the spectators inthfcir owfi ftvojb |^ tftid thus secure for themselves , in appearance at lea& , a inpre ^ a ^^ fttf ^ n ^ - plete victory ^ There ar ^ few literary contests on theological subjects ^ f will not furnish sample $ of thes 6 petty tactics . Mr . Elton , ; it grieve si ) s Jo observe , has , in his attack upon Unitarians , stepped to fcjlaw iaflife < rani . i 3 f more vulgar combatants . He has thickly strewed his boojk with specimens of these elegcmticz controversiarum , if we may be permit *^ so to designate them , which he seems to consider indispensable requisites for an accom *
plished theologian and polemic . His reading and his observation mtgm have taught him , that such unworthy weapons can seldom be ei ^ ib ^ ed without danger or disgrace to the assailant . They are missiles # Bi | h'jffl ^ ve a peculiar aptitude to recoil upon himselfwith accumulatlii !| ytfq ^ y ^ jihd force . He who descert ^ , besides , tp the sinks and the c ^ ir ^ j f CM . jMgfc to ply his adversary with filth , may expect to retire ^ in th | c ^ MXibat soiled , polluted , and disbonoiired , by his own ammunition . We shall , in ' the course of this article , lay before our readers a few of the
railing accusations which Mr . Elton has so unsparingly lieaped upon Umtarians . But we shall first state the nature of the change that has . taken g feoe in his religious views , ais far , at least , as we havel > een abje tpms ^ V ^ ^ tri . the mystical phraseology in which he has generall y enveloped his ^ e |^ ng We are at a loss to understand why the author has chosen to designate his present thoughts tevrepat tyoitrifoq . The reader who is ignorant of * his former history , would , from this title , infer , that he had been from e € uca *
tion an Unitarian , and had now , for the first time , deserted to th ^^ njKs of orthodoxy . His " first thoughts * ' must , we prWim £ , have been ikW pn ^ cV ples of the Established Church , of which his father is known to be a zealous minister and a distinguished ornament . Unitarianism must have beeri his " second thoughts . " The correct title therefore of his book , he must allow us to suggest , ought to be , if not it poor ai tyovrfet ; , as repeating the opinions of his youth , certainly rprm * < t > poyr& 6 $ 9 as delineating the svstem which has superseded both his former creeds . But , to a mind like that of the author ,
teeming with classical recollections , the temptation was perhaps irresistible to send his work into the world under a classical sanction , winch would intimate that his present sentiments , whatever might be their numerical Order in the series of his mental revolutions , were arofpampcci , the wisest and the best He mi g ht intend the Atvrspuv dpuv 6 vav of the Creeks to be equivalent to the Postemcribus melioribus of Erasmus . Whilst quoting Euripides , Mr . Elton mighthave recollected , with advantage to bis book , a passage preceding by a few lines only that from which he has taken his title : * , ' ¦ * ¦ ? " - * " ' . ; ' . " ' "' ¦ :, ; ' ' ^ rr ^ f ^ ' ' \" ' • " ' .. ' . . ... , « wWfeJ fc ^^ » . ^ rw ^ . Jwrip . Htmol . 431 . 432 . How ^ elyi ^ xncMl ^ ty lit ever ^ situation ! Whot distmg ^ shed ^ lory dtteait beariwwwgj » wikihdl ^ u ^^ i ' r :- v . *^ - ,- . - ¦* . ¦ . ¦ ' ¦¦ •^ vi * i-1 '« h « t < , /?¦
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584 Revtew ^ Seeemtomfrwk Umiemamsm .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 584, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/32/
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