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Title: American lands and letters
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism Authors, American
Publisher: New York C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ears his weightiest thundersof damnation — whether of a Mexican war or afugitive slave law — were vulgar thunders, andugly brimstone odors hung nauseously about thetheologic or the humanitarian lightnings of theOdeon, or of Music Hall. Yet he had fathomedall social depths in all ranges of life. In realfriendliness — of intention or of sjicech, he couldgive points to kings and outdo them. As for hisintellectual resources, they were prodigious andimposing ; but they had serious flaws. In whattouched humanitarian questions, he reasoned —witli his heart ; his tenderness over and over, up-set his logic ; his tears put a mist into his pleaseven at the Court of Heaven. Again, his sharp,keen memory for particular facts made him neg-lectful of accepted and accredited records ; he hadexaggerated trust in himself, in his instincts, hismemory, his purposes. He looked down on mostmen ; he had his slaps for Paul the Apostle — asfor an over-confident boy ; he looked up to none— save God.
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Theodore Parker. THEODORE PARKER. 175 I should laugh outright (he says in his journal), tocatch myself weeping because the Boston clergy would notexchange with me! (And again, in a sermon of May 19,1841:) Alas for the man who consents to think one thingin his closet and preach another in his pulpit! . . . Overhis study and over his pulpit, might be writ Emptiness. He was condemned and scouted by most conven-tional preachers ; even Channing looked upon himaskance; Bartol doubted, but befriended him;many shied away, murmuring Infidel \ Hardwords he often dealt back; a fighter full of zealand earnestness ; eyes wide open — though peer-ing through great round glasses ; soul wide open,too — but stormy. He thought, may be, morelargely of his endowments and capacity than theworld has thought; holding his talent — not ina napkin — but astir for Gods and mans ser-vice. So he fared through a short, but very fulllife — not without angry words and tempests ofpitying tears and bitter mal

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