William Ellery Channing: His Messages From the Spirit
William Ellery Channing: His Messages From the Spirit
Paul Revere Frothingham
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Even the young men in Harvard seemed to have no eagerness such as he had felt and given vent to in his college days. One evening a recent graduate called upon him, and, as the great-souled prophet gave expression to his hopes, the visi- tor remarked on leaving, " Really, Dr. Charming, you seem to me the only young man I know ! " And the pale cheek flushed and the great eyes glowed as the voice rang out in an- swer, " Always young for Liberty ! " And so it was. Years of struggle and of serious m...isunderstanding never dimmed his ardor. He reverenced nothing more than the mind that was free. He could say with passionate earnestness: "I call that mind free which resists the bondage of habit, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which re- CHANNING ceives new truth as an angel from heaven, which sets no bounds to its love, which is not imprisoned in itself or in a sect; I call that mind free which does not cower to human opin- ion, which feels itself accountable to a higher tribunal than man's, which re- spects itself too much to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few .
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