He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.William Channing
What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith.
William Channing
Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men, and that its meaning is to be sought in the same manner as that of other books. We believe that God, when he speaks to the human race, conforms, if we may so say, to the established rules of speaking and writing. How else would the Scriptures avail us more, than if communicated in an unknown tongue
William Channing
The distinctions of society vanish before the light of these truths. I attach myself to the multitude, not because they are voters and have political power but because they are (human), and have within their reach the most glorious prizes of humanity. . . . Self-culture, the care which every (person) owes to (oneself), to the unfolding . . . of (one's) nature. . . .
William Channing
I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves.... Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions.
William Channing
A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.
William Channing
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