I lamented this on the side of Mr.Campbell, as I am persuaded he would have been much more powerful had he trusted more to himself and less to his books.
Mr.Owen is an extraordinary man, and certainly possessed of talent, but he appears to me so utterly benighted in the mists of his own theories, that he has quite lost the power of looking through them, so as to get a peep at the world as it really exists around him.
At the conclusion of the debate (which lasted for fifteen sittings) Mr.Campbell desired the whole assembly to sit down.
They obeyed.

He then requested all who wished well to Christianity to rise, and a very large majority were in an instant on their legs.

He again requested them to be seated, and then desired those who believed not in its doctrines to rise, and a few gentlemen and one lady obeyed.

Mr.Owen protested against this manoeuvre, as he called it, and refused to believe that it afforded any proof of the state of men's minds, or of women's either; declaring, that not only was such a result to be expected, in the present state of things, but that it was the duty of every man who had children to feed, not to hazard the sale of his hogs, or his iron, by a declaration of opinions which might offend the majority of his customers.

It was said, that at the end of the fifteen meetings the numerical amount of the Christians and the Infidels of Cincinnati remained exactly what it was when they began.
This was a result that might have been perhaps anticipated; but what was much less to have been expected, neither of the disputants ever appeared to lose their temper.