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    that we must bend , with entire and undivided po ^ rer ^ our best efforts . This is the weak point which we are to guard with all our might and main . Hie labor , hoc opus est . We believe that He who made us hath here left himself ' not without witness' that he knovveth our frame ^ We rejoice in thinking that we have abundant strength to hear the weight that is thus put upon us ; that with extraordinary difficulties and perils we have extraordinary aids and supports . < j .

    It is our fixed conviction , that to the Christian religion alone can we look to pioneer the mind of man through the dangers which infest its path to freedom and strength : that it is the Gospel * in its attractive and enlivening exhibitions of vast truth , in the immensity of its views , the greatness of its motives , the gloriousness of its hopes , the surenesSj perfection and universality of its practical principles , in the : calm and simple elevation of its habitual tone and spirit , redolent of glory , honour , and imraortality , - ^ that it is this alone which can set free the wearied and troubled

    intellect , and impart to it consistency , vigour , unity and loftiness . We are convinced that , but for Christianity and its influences * direct and indirect , human genius would , for the most part , be utterly incompetent to grapple with the existing obstacles to its full and free development : —that , destitute of this principle of ' power * and of a * sound mind , ' its reach would be narrowed , its view shortened , its aim lowered , its very essence progressively enfeebled and debased , with the march of advancing civilization .

    It is obviously out of the question to attempt , in a paper like the present , any thing approaching to a detailed exposition of this momentous subject ; embracing , as it does , one of the most extensive , refined , and , we think , convincing branches of the internal evidences of our faith . We feel that we must at present confine ourselves to the above very rapid indication of some of its more prominent heads . Deeply would it rejoice us to see a worthier than ourselves put his hand to the plough , and turn up this fertile , but as yet well-nigh untrodden field .

    We conclude with expressing , in the words of one of the master-minds of the present day—a mind whose expansion , force , and freshness furnish a most pointed illustration of the truth in question *—our earnest belief * that the human mind will become more various , piercing , and all-comprehending , more capable of

    understanding and expressing the solemn and the sportive , the terrible and the beautiful , the profound and the tender , in proportion as it shall be illumined and penetrated by the true knowledge of God . Genius , intellect , imagination , taste , and sensibility , must all be baptized into religion , or they will never know , and never make known , their real glory and immortal power / . » * Dr . Channiag .

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    B 64 On the Development of Gmht * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 564, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/60/