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AND THE

MORAL TENDENCY OF HIS WRITINGS.

By

Wellene mutch
Mitchell)

Logic is the art of talking unintelligibly on things of which we are ignorant.-MENAGE,

NEW-YORK:

LEAVITT, TROW & CO.,

194 BROADWAY.

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ERRATA.-Page 20, 13th line from top, for prilanthropist read psilanthropist. Page
25, 6th line from bottom, for synastesis read synartesis. Page 102, 4th line from bottom,
for anicas read amica.

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It begins at length to be seen, that the theological mists of Coleridgism have been spreading themselves among us, not without effect. Our divinity professors seem to have thought that they are too much like the comet's hair to have much influence of any kind; but have they not in this instance forgotten that the appropriate title of Satan, as the author of evil, is the prince of the power of the air? Minute and invisible causes are often the most powerful. Changes have been occurring during the last ten or fifteen years, to which it is now very manifest these transcendental tenuities have been, in no small measure, causal. Unitarians have become pantheists. Calvinists have exchanged Calvin and Edwards for modern divines of Germany. Satisfaction for sin has been discarded, and the doctrine of at-one-ment substituted for that of the atonement. Preaching, in certain cases, has passed from plain to dreamy and mystical, from shallow to incomprehensible, from commonplace to great seeming profundity. Friends of our religious revivals have become distrustful, if not contemptuous, towards them. Friends of missions have acquired a supersensuous indifference, if not disgust, towards them and almost every other cause of active benevolence. Puritans have adopted the religion of

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