...those waves, was carried on in my soul," he recalled. "No spot on earth has helped to form me so much as that beach. There I lifted up my voice in praise...power around me, I became conscious of power within." Against Calvinist orthodoxy and, later, the cold rationalism of his Unitarian friends, Channing held...

...spot on earth has helped to form me so much as that beach. There I lifted up my voice in praise amid the tempest. There, softened by beauty, I poured out...mighty power around me, I became conscious of power within.1' 20 A reference, of course, to the last of Berkeley's wellknown verses written while at Newport...