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produced popular preachers in the best sense of the word , and believed it would produce ( fthers . Though TJnitariaiiism was not taught as an exclusive system at York , it was frequently brought
under review . The utmost freedom of enquiry was permitted to the students . This had been exemplified in himself , who had delivered an oration in the academy , maintaining sentiments contrary lo the known sentiments of the
Divinity Tutor and the majority © f the students , \ yhich had been received with perfect liberality . He again expressed his hope that the friends of the Unitarian Fund and the friends of the York Academy "would over be the same * He
de-* ljired his conviction that the projected academical institution was wanted and would be useful , and le did not see hQw it could interfere with that of York : and he
concluded with paying a handsome compliment to Mr . Wellbcloved , who had undertaken the tutorship amidst great discourageinents , and had sustained it with distinguished ability and success .
Mr . Wright thought it a duty to state that in . his missionary tours le had experienced the greatest fondness foorn the tutors at York , and from the York students wherever he found them '
Fearing from son ^ e things that fuui been dropped that it might be imagined there was an apprehension of rivalry between the New Academical Institution and York , M& . Rutt said that the two « e *
punanes were perfectly distinct * n their objects . The object of the York Academy was to give . a thorough liberal education ; that of the proposed acatffemy to give a purely theological ediu
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cation * Students were not admitted at Yoik which he thought right , without " grammar lear ning ; in the intended academy ^ no qualification would be required , but satisfactory character and promising talents . In the York Academy students , mingled together , whatever mi ^ ht be their intended profession ; in the institution about to be established
would be only candidates for the ministry . The time allotted to education at York allowed and invited the student to go through , the whole circle of the sciences ; but the time , two years , provided for by the new plan , would admit only of attention to the scriptures , in their original languages , and with relation to the borfks
necessary to expjain them * xork , he thought and hoped , would continue to supply ministers f # our opulent and refined congregations ; and the more limited academy , proposed to be set on foot , would raise ministers for places " whose case would not be reached by any other institution . Irk concluded , therefore , that there was ample room for both , . ' . seminaries , and that both might consistently receive the support of die same individuals .
In this sentiment the company cordially acquiesced . The twoibllouing sentiments grew out of passii £ es in the flu-port : — - The Unit at inn Plant in the Frigid Zone of Britain . Our Sptedy Union with Ire * land . ** On the health of the Committee being given from the chair , Mi * * Riciiari / Fa rioR , whoh& < I been named in the toast , returned thanks for them , stating how much satLsfaction it would give him and'his
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Intelligence *—Unitarian Fund . 371
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/51/
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