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Excerpt from Works of William E. Channing, D. D, Vol. 1 of 6
The following writings will be found to be distinguished by nothing more, than by the high estimate which they express of human nature. A respect for the human soul breathes through them. The time may come for unfold ing my views more fully on this and many connected top ics. As yet, I have given but fragments; and, on this account, I have been sometimes misapprehended. The truth is, that a man, who looks through the present dis guises and humbling circumstances of human nature, and speaks with earnestness of what it was made for and what it may become, is commonly set down by men of the world as a romancer, and what is far worse, by the religious, as a minister to human pride, perhaps as exalt ing man against God. A few remarks on this point seem, therefore, a proper introduction to these volumes.
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