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Mr. Brownson thinks that he has thus discovered a formula of
"the faith once delivered to the saints," which goes behind and
annihilates the controversy between Unitarians and Trinitarians, and
may lead them both to a deeper comprehension and clearer expression
of the secret of life.
_Literary Intelligence_
The death of Dr. Channing at Bennington in Vermont, on the 2d
October, is an event of great note to the whole country. The great
loss of the community is mitigated by the new interest which
intellectual power always acquires by the death of the possessor.
Dr. Channing was a man of so much rectitude, and such power to
express his sense of right, that his value to this country, of which
he was a kind of public _Conscience_, can hardly be overestimated.
Not only his merits, but his limitations also, which made all his
virtues and talents intelligible and available for the correction and
elevation of society, made our Cato dear, and his loss not to be
repaired. His interest in the times, and the fidelity and
independence, with which, for so many years, he had exercised that
censorship on commercial, political, and literary morals, which was
the spontaneous dictate of his character, had earned for him an
accumulated capital of veneration, which caused his opinion to be
waited for in each emergency, as that of the wisest and most upright
of judges.
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