New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-13

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round him in his DIVING moneuts1 Ihese, sE,
,heas we,a the genuine Cld-School Men OF his
day ;,
How than. !, NAV be asked, was he condemned
m tbe charge of atheism 4 sufficient answer IS
found in the fact, that be not tired in The Old
School ecclesiastical court OF the Areopagus,
which was BY law entitled to the superintendence
of ali things relating 70 religion, but, 10 defiance OF
all law, BIZ the mob couri Of the Helina, which
Aristophanes describes 50 greedy after The mise
rable fee OF the Oboius and whose twenty thousand
jurors had been utterly corrupted By the ontoenery
and obsceui;y OF their free-ihinklng comedians
No sir, we repel the charge with Indignation. ms
reyered Sage eninently conservative IN an
his teachings. No one ever 5oug ht more earnestly
20 divest man Of vain confidence in human reason
With him the highest wisdom was 20 know lae
insufhcieucy of our own understandings IN the as
covery Of moral and religious truth. his was me
burfhen of all his conflicts with The soPhists, N MS
efforts to unmask these pretendeTs 10 Shef HSAl
We cannot read passage Of his recorded dialogues
feeling that nothings mere utterly foreign 10
hi, ba bis OF thou ght than the oderE Boosting about
the dignity ofhuman nature and the progress oil the
race. Was it the preaching of liberalism think yoa,
that thus made The mob his most bitter enemy II
80 it is the first time in the history OF man tina;
such cause has been followed BY such an effect.
He has been blamed (unjusty We think by these
who did not unders .and his position) because ne
recommended conformity 10 the established re!i-
zion of the country. He did not live in an age
when every and every woman are sad TO nave
their mission of innovation. E.en the Mythology
he touched with trembling hands, and whilst en-
deavoring to give better aspect TO some OF It's
grosser features, feared to destroy what he tell ne
had no commission to reconstruct and preferred
even superstition 70 free thinking liberalism IN
religion
Run parallel between Socrates and Charming .
II must be parallel of antthcses then, ever. ran-
ming on all fsr,s, in opposite directions. Even
Shskspesres Fluellen, with all his love OF sfnI-
udest. might be puzzled TO End as muchresemb!ance
"a he traced Between Monmouth and AIacedon
{" Look qou Master Gouer, there IS r'rer IN
Monmouth and river in Macedoa, I'D there ere
fishes in BOTH X Hen Y. SC. wiz And 50 we may
saw. Socrates lived in the Athens OF Greece, and
Charming in what has been called the Athens OF
America, bat here ali resemblance except that OF
direct contrast ceases Let u, however, attempt
The parallel. Socrates reverencea even the aiy'h'
Of corrupt religion: Channing has boldly ridicui-
ed what the great BODY of the Christian Church mas
ever regarded as among the most ssiemn ye-ities OF
revelations Socrates, ever taught thatit was the
human reason--this was the interpretation he ever
gave 10 tho pracular gloth1 seanton Charming
teaches US to revereneo oar oacn nature, while he
ands human weaknesses in proiesseitt revelation
fom Heayes. Socrates was the object OF persecution
If the ,ee-tbinking sophists of the day. Charming
s. warmly admired by all their modern brethren
was ever most conservative in his politics.
His pic,ures of de,nagoguism would furnish even
la.s n
Claiming. If rot utterly infected with radicailsin
b;msejf hes SGT many Young man hat road OF
unsettled opinions which ultimately leads there
In short. 70 conclude our an:ithetical pararllsu'
thew both looked backward and both looked Tor
ward. bur in how different manner, Socrates
in his despair of aid from mere human power
looked anxously back 10 the remains OF what ne
STYLED ~ Hcavca descended wisdom, and endea'-
ored to eather all the light he could from those
diving embers os primitive revelation: WHICH
vet survived amid ihe corruption ot Our pro
gressive race, while he looked forward IN humble
hope for The appearance Of a dfo!ne person, who
MIGHT teach us ,s pray and reveal those mys-
| erjes which human reason could never penetrate.
Charming. after thi. dicne person bad come,
| looked back. back, away beyond that revelation
OF MYSTERIES the penary inspiration OF winch NJ
had discarded, to lower system OF natural re.i-
zion Than Socrates had ever taught. whilst be Look
ed forward what TO development ct nm
manly! as though human nature had not been
sufficiently developed BY the Bible and the expert
ence Of six thousand years We conclude with
but one remark Your correspondent iii his paral-
lei, if he means any thing must intend TO com
nare not only the men, but the systems they are
eucb sunposed TO have assaed; but in doing so
10, him rerpcmbeF, and blush as he remembers,
III, owe "
.hip Of Pan and tie atominable professions of he
Pbnlu.. with the most sacred doctrines OF The BIZ
BILE as ever held by The great minority Of protested
| Christians OLD SCHOOL,