The world: historical and actual . E. WOKCE-TEU. GEORGE BANCROFT. through numerous editions, and been improvedand enlarged many times. America has broughtthe art of preparing text-books for the school-roomto a degree of perfection unknown in the old world,and in that line Noah Webster was the may be calledthefather of Amer-ican school books. In the first halfof this centurythere 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 theCongre
The world: historical and actual . E. WOKCE-TEU. GEORGE BANCROFT. through numerous editions, and been improvedand enlarged many times. America has broughtthe art of preparing text-books for the school-roomto a degree of perfection unknown in the old world,and in that line Noah Webster was the may be calledthefather of Amer-ican school books. In the first halfof this centurythere 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 a
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