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an read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REFORM AND CONSERVATISM. From the Boston Quarterly Review for January, 1842.] do not introduce this sermon to our readers in quence of its intrinsic merit, for it is but a common-place performance...(展开全部)
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REFORM AND CONSERVATISM. From the Boston Quarterly Review for January, 1842.] do not introduce this sermon to our readers in quence of its intrinsic merit, for it is but a common-place performance, altogether beneath the talents and genius of its author, ?a most estimable man, and a successful preaier;?but for the purpose of saying something on the very important and deeply interesting subject it broaches. The man who helps us to detect our errors we always hold to be our friend, for he renders us an essential service, the most essential that one man can render another. We, therefore, feel that we are not a little indebted to the author of this sermon; for we had no conception of the impotence of the doctrine we had all alongbeen insisting upon, till we found him reproducing it. We cannot reflect on our advocacy of the doctrine, here drawn out at length, without taking shame to ourselves, confessing our sins, and promising an endeavor at amendment. The leading doctrine of this sermon is, that the well- instructed scribe is one who retains a firm hold on the past, while exerting himself to conquer the future; that reform is progress; and that the true reformer labors ever to fulfill the old, never to destroy it. This is a doctrine which our readers know that we have insisted on from the first; it is a doctrine which covers a great and vital truth; but as we have often brought it out and as it is brought out in this sermon, its effect must be worse than that of falsehood itself. By its light Mr. Clarke proceeds to read a lecture of conservatism to reformers, and of radicalism to conservatives. To the first he says, virtually though not consciously, "My dear friends, you are too hot;" to the second, " You are too cold. Let me beseech you, therefore, reformers, to cool o... [ 收起 ]
