The world: historical and actual . e arose a tem-pestuous contro-versy in Massachu-setts over the doc-trine of the one side wereProf. Moses Stuartand his compeersof Andover The-ological Seminary,and the orthodoxministers of theCongregational church generally, and on the otherside were Dr. Channing (1780-1842) and the Wares,Henry and William, with their Unitarian sympa-thizers. This controversy was mainly carried onin the pulpit andthrough the jour-nalistic press, butsome of the litera-ture forms a part ofa great intellectualcontest. The mostillustrious productof it, however, wasTheo
The world: historical and actual . e arose a tem-pestuous contro-versy in Massachu-setts over the doc-trine of the one side wereProf. Moses Stuartand his compeersof Andover The-ological Seminary,and the orthodoxministers of theCongregational church generally, and on the otherside were Dr. Channing (1780-1842) and the Wares,Henry and William, with their Unitarian sympa-thizers. This controversy was mainly carried onin the pulpit andthrough the jour-nalistic press, butsome of the litera-ture forms a part ofa great intellectualcontest. The mostillustrious productof it, however, wasTheodore Parker,who was so veryliberal that evenUnitarians couldnot tolerate works are not widelv read, john loturop motley. but they have been highly praised for their literarymerits. The historians of America besides those alreadynamed, and who are really second to none in anyland or time, are Prescott, Hildreth, Bancroft, Mot-ley and Parkman, all natives of Massachusetts andgraduates of Harvard College. Wit. H. Prescott. ^^ b44 AMERICAN LITERATURE. was born in 1796 and died in 1859. He wrote thehistory of Ferdinand and Isabella, also of the con-quests of Mexico and Peru. They were at once rec-ognized as the productions of a genius. RichardHildreth (1807-1865) was the author of an elaboratehistory of the United States, which has only onerival, and that is the great work of George Bancroft was born m 1800 and still was Secretary of the Navy in 1845, and he heldseveral other high positions under the years ago he began his history of the UnitedStates, and a new volume has been hailed from timeto time as an event. His style, however, is heavyand his volumes dull. John Lothrop Motley was born in 1814 and diedin 1877. He devotedhis life to the Rise andFall of the, Dutch Re-public, and in that fieldnever had a peer. Hisstyle is elegant Mr. Mot-ley wrote several dis-tinct yet kindred vol-umes. He representedthe United
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