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Parker insisted upon not resigning, even when the majority wanted him to depart, upon daring the Fellowship to throw him out. | insisted | {
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Parker insisted upon not resigning, even when the majority wanted him to depart, upon daring the Fellowship to throw him out. | resigning | {
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Parker insisted upon not resigning, even when the majority wanted him to depart, upon daring the Fellowship to throw him out. | wanted | {
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Parker insisted upon not resigning, even when the majority wanted him to depart, upon daring the Fellowship to throw him out. | depart | {
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Parker insisted upon not resigning, even when the majority wanted him to depart, upon daring the Fellowship to throw him out. | daring | {
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Parker insisted upon not resigning, even when the majority wanted him to depart, upon daring the Fellowship to throw him out. | throw | {
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Hence he was in his lifetime, as is the memory of him afterwards, a canker within the liberal sensitivity. | was | {
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Hence he was in his lifetime, as is the memory of him afterwards, a canker within the liberal sensitivity. | is | {
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He still points an accusing finger at all of us, telling us we have neither the courage to support him nor the energy to cut his throat. | points | {
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He still points an accusing finger at all of us, telling us we have neither the courage to support him nor the energy to cut his throat. | telling | {
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He still points an accusing finger at all of us, telling us we have neither the courage to support him nor the energy to cut his throat. | have | {
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He still points an accusing finger at all of us, telling us we have neither the courage to support him nor the energy to cut his throat. | support | {
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He still points an accusing finger at all of us, telling us we have neither the courage to support him nor the energy to cut his throat. | cut | {
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Actually, the dispute between Parker and the society of his time, both ecclesiastical and social, was a real one, a bitter one. | was | {
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It cannot be smoothed over by now cherishing his sarcasms as delightful bits of self-deprecation or by solemnly calling for a reconsideration of the justice of the objections to him. | smoothed over | {
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It cannot be smoothed over by now cherishing his sarcasms as delightful bits of self-deprecation or by solemnly calling for a reconsideration of the justice of the objections to him. | cherishing | {
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It cannot be smoothed over by now cherishing his sarcasms as delightful bits of self-deprecation or by solemnly calling for a reconsideration of the justice of the objections to him. | calling for | {
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The fact is incontestable : that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened. | is | {
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The fact is incontestable : that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened. | was | {
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The fact is incontestable : that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened. | resort | {
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The fact is incontestable : that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened. | threatened | {
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Parker, along with Garrison and Charles Sumner, showed a magnificent moral bravery when facing mobs mobilized in defense of the Mexican War and slavery. | showed | {
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Parker, along with Garrison and Charles Sumner, showed a magnificent moral bravery when facing mobs mobilized in defense of the Mexican War and slavery. | facing | {
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Parker, along with Garrison and Charles Sumner, showed a magnificent moral bravery when facing mobs mobilized in defense of the Mexican War and slavery. | mobilized | {
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Nevertheless, we can find reasons for respecting even the bigotry of the populace ; their passions were genuine, and the division between them and the abolitionists is clear-cut. | find | {
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Nevertheless, we can find reasons for respecting even the bigotry of the populace ; their passions were genuine, and the division between them and the abolitionists is clear-cut. | respecting | {
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Nevertheless, we can find reasons for respecting even the bigotry of the populace ; their passions were genuine, and the division between them and the abolitionists is clear-cut. | were | {
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Nevertheless, we can find reasons for respecting even the bigotry of the populace ; their passions were genuine, and the division between them and the abolitionists is clear-cut. | is | {
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But Parker as the ultra-liberal minister within the pale of a church which had proclaimed itself the repository of liberality poses a different problem, which is not to be resolved by holding him up as the champion of freedom. | proclaimed | {
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But Parker as the ultra-liberal minister within the pale of a church which had proclaimed itself the repository of liberality poses a different problem, which is not to be resolved by holding him up as the champion of freedom. | poses | {
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But Parker as the ultra-liberal minister within the pale of a church which had proclaimed itself the repository of liberality poses a different problem, which is not to be resolved by holding him up as the champion of freedom. | is | {
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But Parker as the ultra-liberal minister within the pale of a church which had proclaimed itself the repository of liberality poses a different problem, which is not to be resolved by holding him up as the champion of freedom. | resolved | {
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But Parker as the ultra-liberal minister within the pale of a church which had proclaimed itself the repository of liberality poses a different problem, which is not to be resolved by holding him up as the champion of freedom. | holding | {
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Even though his theological theses have become, to us, commonplaces, the fundamental interrogation he phrased is very much with us. | become | {
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Even though his theological theses have become, to us, commonplaces, the fundamental interrogation he phrased is very much with us. | phrased | {
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Even though his theological theses have become, to us, commonplaces, the fundamental interrogation he phrased is very much with us. | is | {
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It has been endlessly rephrased, but I may here put it thus : at what point do the tolerant find themselves obliged to become intolerant? | rephrased | {
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It has been endlessly rephrased, but I may here put it thus : at what point do the tolerant find themselves obliged to become intolerant? | put | {
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It has been endlessly rephrased, but I may here put it thus : at what point do the tolerant find themselves obliged to become intolerant? | find | {
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It has been endlessly rephrased, but I may here put it thus : at what point do the tolerant find themselves obliged to become intolerant? | obliged | {
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It has been endlessly rephrased, but I may here put it thus : at what point do the tolerant find themselves obliged to become intolerant? | become | {
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And then, as they become aware that they have reached the end of their patience, what do they, to their dismay, learn for the first time about themselves? | become | {
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And then, as they become aware that they have reached the end of their patience, what do they, to their dismay, learn for the first time about themselves? | reached | {
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And then, as they become aware that they have reached the end of their patience, what do they, to their dismay, learn for the first time about themselves? | learn | {
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There can be no doubt, the Boston of that era could be exquisitely cruel in enforcing its canons of behavior. | be | {
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There can be no doubt, the Boston of that era could be exquisitely cruel in enforcing its canons of behavior. | be | {
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The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action : `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by... | revered | {
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The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action : `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by... | wrote | {
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The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action : `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by... | abound in | {
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The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action : `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by... | governed | {
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The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action : `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by... | called | {
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We stand more in awe of one another than most people. | stand | {
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Even more poignantly, and with the insight of a genius, Channing added - remember, this is Channing, not Parker! | added | {
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Even more poignantly, and with the insight of a genius, Channing added - remember, this is Channing, not Parker! | remember | {
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- that should a minister in Boston trust himself to his heart, should he `` speak without book, and consequently break some law of speech, or be hurried into some daring hyperbole, he should find little mercy ''. | trust | {
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- that should a minister in Boston trust himself to his heart, should he `` speak without book, and consequently break some law of speech, or be hurried into some daring hyperbole, he should find little mercy ''. | speak | {
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- that should a minister in Boston trust himself to his heart, should he `` speak without book, and consequently break some law of speech, or be hurried into some daring hyperbole, he should find little mercy ''. | break | {
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- that should a minister in Boston trust himself to his heart, should he `` speak without book, and consequently break some law of speech, or be hurried into some daring hyperbole, he should find little mercy ''. | hurried | {
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- that should a minister in Boston trust himself to his heart, should he `` speak without book, and consequently break some law of speech, or be hurried into some daring hyperbole, he should find little mercy ''. | find | {
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Channing wrote this - in a letter! | wrote | {
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I think it fair to say that he never quite reached such candor in his sermons. | think | {
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I think it fair to say that he never quite reached such candor in his sermons. | reached | {
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But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the co... | commencing | {
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But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the co... | bore | {
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But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the co... | descended | {
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But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the co... | were | {
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But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the co... | made | {
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But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the co... | was | {
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But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the co... | evaporated | {
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Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might - with daring hyperbole - Parker vindicated Channing 's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines. | spoke | {
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Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might - with daring hyperbole - Parker vindicated Channing 's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines. | prophesied | {
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Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might - with daring hyperbole - Parker vindicated Channing 's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines. | vindicated | {
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Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might - with daring hyperbole - Parker vindicated Channing 's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines. | committed | {
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Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might - with daring hyperbole - Parker vindicated Channing 's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines. | discover | {
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Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might - with daring hyperbole - Parker vindicated Channing 's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines. | were | {
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Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might - with daring hyperbole - Parker vindicated Channing 's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines. | allow | {
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Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might - with daring hyperbole - Parker vindicated Channing 's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines. | appeared | {
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An institutionalized liberalism proved itself fundamentally an institution, and only within those defined limits a license. | proved | {
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By reminding ourselves of these factors in the situation, we should, I am sure, come to a fresh realization, however painful it be, that the battle between Parker and his neighbors was fought in earnest. | reminding | {
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By reminding ourselves of these factors in the situation, we should, I am sure, come to a fresh realization, however painful it be, that the battle between Parker and his neighbors was fought in earnest. | am | {
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By reminding ourselves of these factors in the situation, we should, I am sure, come to a fresh realization, however painful it be, that the battle between Parker and his neighbors was fought in earnest. | fought | {
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He arraigned the citizens in language of so little courtesy that they had to respond with, at the least, resentment. | arraigned | {
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What otherwise could `` the lawyer, doctor, minister, the men of science and letters '' do when told that they had `` become the cherubim and seraphim and the three archangels who stood before the golden throne of the merchant, and continually cried, ' Holy, holy, holy is the Almighty Dollar '' '? | do | {
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Nor, when we recollect how sensitive were the emotions of the old Puritan stock in regard to the recent tides of immigration, should we be astonished that their thin lips were compressed into a white line of rage as Parker snarled at them thus : `` Talk about the Catholics voting as the bishop tells! | recollect | {
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