The book Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; was written by author Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929 Here you can read free online of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; a good or bad book?
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It was in some re- spects a peculiar position, since it compelled him, a prominent Unitarian, to take ground against the professor of liberal views and in favor of those who adhered to the strictest tenets of Orthodoxy, with which he had no intellectual sympathy. He felt the humor of the situation, and could not re- frain from at least hinting at it Thus at the outset of his argument he said : " There is, as I understand it, no question of theo- logy to be determined by the Court I should feel ...very much embarrassed if I thought there were. If I were to undertake to discuss and point out the differences between the doctrines of the An- dover Creed and the publications of Dr. Smyth, I should feel like the Scotch old woman who, when asked if she understood the sermon, replied, 'Wad I ha'e the presumption V " He rested his argument upon the proposition that the founders of the Seminary attached to their foundation the condition, that the professors who taught should declare their faith in a certain Digitized by VjOOQ IC THE PUBLIC-SPIRITED CITIZEN 271 creed, and should teach according to it, saying : ''When the morning stars sang together, the An- dover Creed, in these people's estimation, was the song/' This proposition he illustrated as fol- lows: — ''Suppose somebody had founded an asylum for the blind, and the founder had come to the conclu- sion — not perhaps sufficiently considering the scriptural caution about 'the blind leading the blind ' — that it was best to have the instructors and teachers and managers all themselves blind people; he had appointed what they had to do, and thought that their sympathies and their in- fluence on their blind pupils would be better, and therefore he provided an institution, to which his money was to be given, to educate the blind, and with a provision that nobody but the blind should be professors or teachers in it And suppose that were carried out, and having been for sixty or seventy years in full operation, the asylum having a board of Visitors to see that that provision was carried out, and one of the teachers should come to one of tiie Visitors and say, 'I have been experimenting on my own case, I have got some- thing which has made plain this difficulty; an Arabian doctor has prepared and brought with him a drug, and I have been rubbing it on my own eyes and I already begin to see a little.
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