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Most of his articles were published in "The
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in 1845 gradually unsettled his belief in the validity of the claims of
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scholarship, his balance of judgment, and his intellectual keenness gave to his counsels a weight and maturity that had no little influence in pruning the spirit and traditions of the community."
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