The bronze figure of William Ellery Channing stands on a granite pedestal in the Public Garden, his right hand extended as if mid-sermon. Sculptor Herbert Adams cast this likeness in nineteen oh three, decades after the minister died. Channing served as the primary voice of Unitarianism in America, famously arguing for the dignity of human nature against the harsher doctrines of his day. During the ceremony to unveil the statue, speakers praised his quiet influence on Boston's intellectual life from his nearby pulpit.
Statue of William Ellery Channing
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