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is Worth translating . " Accordingly I made out for my friend a list of our most interesting books of this description ;* and since my return to England , I have added a few more to the number , included in a large packet of our best works , which I have just sent off .
* The following are already translated into French , and there are probably others of which I ain not ' aware . Evenings at Home ; Sandford and Morton ; Parent ' s Assistant ; RoWnsGu Crusoe ; Mrs . Trimmer ' s Fabulous Histories , and Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature ; Mrs . Barbauld ' s Lessons for Children .
From the above , you will easily believe me when I say , that I never became acquainted with a set of men , from whom I more deeply regretted to part , than from the Reformed Clergy of Geneva . They are a fine , intelligent body , full of an excellent and a most Christian spirit ; and I shall rejoice to hear that I am not the only minister of our persuasion , whose good fortune it is to make their acquaintance . I remain , Sir , yours very truly , S . WOOD .
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To the Editor . Silt , Having recently read Mr . C . A . Elton ' s kevrepai Q povrt iec , and Mr . Gil-Christ ' s " Unitarianism Abandoned , " and having at the same time heard their secession from the religious party with which they had been connected , attributed to causes not altos-ether in accordance with disinterestedness and
impartiality , I may perhaps be indulged in making a few brief observations on what must undoubtedly have attracted the notice of most of your readers . In the first place , without possessing the means of knowing how far these reports may be well or ill founded , I must beg leave to remark , that in perusing the works of an author , we have no concern whatever with the private motives by which he has been actuated , and that our sole object should be to estimate the intrinsic value of the arguments adduced in favour of his
opinions , without being biassed by the circumstances which gave birth to their publication , or by the consequences which they are supposed to involve . Whether in publishing their respective sentiments to the world , the Churchman be influenced by the hope of preferment , and the Dissenter by narrow-minded prejudice or personal jealousy ; whether the former be said to indulge a puerile attachment to existing institutions simply because they exhibit the rust of antiquity , and the latter be accused of entertaining , from motives equally childish , an inveterate aversion to every opinion that accords
with the popular creed , are points to which the reader ' s attention ought on no account to be directed . If truth be his object , the latter has only to examine on which side of the question the evidence preponderates , and the reasoning employed in its support is best entitled to claim his assent . That the passions and interests of mankind in too many instances interfere with the decisions of the understanding , no observer of human nature can for one moment venture to deny ; but still freedom from prepossession is not on that account less incumbent , nor are Our efforts to attain it less imperiously required .
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On Mr . Elton ' s Second Tlioughtt . 643
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REMARKS ON Mil . ELTON ' S SECOND THOUGHTS ON THE PERSON OF CHRIST , &C .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/11/
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