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... nature and wants. Men have outgrown the other institutions of that period when christianity appeared, its philosophy, its modes of warfare, its policy, its public and private economy ; but Christianity has never shrunk as intellect has opened, but...

Essays on the Nature and Uses of the Various Evidences of Revealed Religion - Page 107
by Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1824 - 267 pages
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The Works of William Ellery Channing, Volume 3

William Ellery Channing - 1903 - 406 pages

...but Christianity has never shrunk as intellect has opened, but has always kept in advance of men's faculties, and unfolded nobler views in proportion...religion. Christianity is indeed peculiarly fitted to the more improved stages of society, to the more delicate sensibilities of refined minds, and especially...

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