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indeed , as men among children ; but the children have a principle of growth which leads to manhood . '—p . 154 . And will not this tendency be realized ? Will not the feebleness of moral infancy be trained to strength by the discipline ofa future life ? It is not unreasonable to expect that the mere
transition to a different state of existence , may have results analogous to those of the location of a criminal in new circumstances . Many of our vices are generated by the peculiarities of our mortal condition , and by the corruptions of society , without which it seems that they should wither for want of nourishment and stimulus . The evil is of earth and circumstance : the good is of nature and eternity .
• In heaven ambition cannot dwell , Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions of the earth , They perish where they had their birth , But love is indestructible . '
So was it truly and beautifully said by Southey ; and we should rather have expected from Dr . Charming an entire sympathy with , and a full developement of the principle contained in these lines , than so strange a speculation as that advanced in the eighth discourse , of the generation hereafter , by the depraved mind , of a bodily frame , whose organs and senses shall only convey
impressions of gloom and emotions of pain . On this point , and also on his view of morals , which he seems to resolve into the dictates of an innate principle , or sense , or instinct , we cannot but dissent from the volume before us . But these spots , which may not be to others the defect which they are to our minds , are lost in our sense of the pervading brightness . And if the author stops short of what appear to us the ultimate prospects of universal humanity ,
he fully satisfies us , by the spirit in which he contemplates the present condition of the world , and the agencies which ought to be relied upon for its improvement . We regret we cannot conclude this brief notice , which is indeed chiefly intended to apprize our readers of the arrival and republication of these discourses , by a quotation expressing the author ' s views on the great political and social changes now taking place in Europe . We refer to the conclusion of tne discourse on the ' Honour due to all men /
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136 Channing ' s Sermons .
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The various applications which have been made to the legislature for the relief of Unitarians from compulsive conformity with Trinitarian worship in the marriage ceremony , the parliamentary proceedings which took place thereon , and the general merits of the question itself , have so frequently occupied the pages of the Repository > as to render most of our readers sufficiently familiar
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THE DISSENTING . MARRIAGE QUESTION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1833, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2608/page/68/
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