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in the present company , He would give , The York Academy , and Education without Subscriptiun to AHm-. titles of Faith . As one of the persons interested in the York Academy , and probably alluded to by the Chairman , Mr Ottjwell W 6 oi > said , that he felt the inchest era-tilude
for this testimony ufc approbation of the . York- Academy by so l ^ r ^ e and respec table a company of Unitarians / assembled- from all parts of thi ? United Kingdom . He declared that he had the greatest respect for the tutor at York
and for the students educated there , and he was convinced that this institution -merited the support of all the fm ^ nds of rational chfistianitye Mr , Woodxead and commented
on % -. passage . from the Review of the " Barrister ' s" pamphlet in the Quarterly Rette-w ^ in which it is said that Unitarianism . " appeals to the vanity , of the half-learned , and the pride of the half * reason , i ns *' - * and tka { it is " the most harmless of all heresies , and can never become a popular doctrine /'
He exposed , in indignant language , the ignorance and arrogance of the "jvriier , and oiily wished that he were h ^ re present to be convicted t ; h ' ^ errors . He had take n His , noti 6 n of Unitarians only frotn
. books , and from books written a century ago . 4 c V l he half-learn * . mi ' ! Yes , Ilardner , Taylor , P <^ r-¦ nier and ' Wak ^ field 1 u 1 'he half !
^ reasoning" I Yes , Newtqn and L ^ yrke !__ » y > t \ Q ? V §?* V * £ * ° ^ jsiiljj . ^ ct of the Yorkj £ caderiiy * mu wood said that this institution iad already provided some of our most popular ministers , and would * lie had
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doubt ^ raise up niany others : $ long succession ., He wished what he had said might have the effect of turning the attention of the meeting and of the metropolis to the York Institution , which had not received all the support from London that might have been ex pec ted , and that its rnerits appeared to him to deserve .
Mr . Lyons declared his warm wishes for the prosperity of the York Academy , to which he had lately lent his support ^ such as it was hn-t h& shoald he . hftftpr
pleased with what he already approved ^ if the Institution were held out to the public as Unitarian . He thought that in this case it would meet , as it deserved , with more general eBCodragernenL
Mr . George Wii ^ iam Wood , the present Treasurer of York Academy , allowed that at York , Unitarianism was not professedly taught , nor any other ism
The respected tutor aimed to make not partisans , but well-informed and unprejudiced Christian f&achers . He laid 'before the stu .
dents all the ^ trgumeri on disputed points , and urged them to free inquiry jpid diligent examination , but left thelm to jnctge and deter . mine for ' tftc ^ iiselves * Was not
this the coiirse which every rational , liberaCchristian woiird wish to see ' pursued } Would not the pro . bable result ' of it fee truth , which we Believe to " lie ffi . e same as Unjtananism I ? , Ukiif ADiiE st ^ tetithat , having Bfeei > fought np ^ VYdrk , he could ^ tWw ^ il ^ sileiit ' in a discussion . He wished ^ nd reloic ^ d to see the Yo rk ^ Academy aiDd the Unk&fian ' fund promotin ^ each " oilier T ' fie trusted , - ijith Mr Wood , that the academy & *
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370 Intelligence *** — Unitarian Fund .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/50/
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