He has great persuasive power; it is the persuasive power of a mind warmly engaged in seeking truth for itself.

He sometimes carries homeward convictions with great energy, driving in the thought as with golden nails.

A glow of kindly human sympathy enlivens his argument, and the whole presents thought in a well-proportioned, animated body.

But I am told he is far superior in speech on political or social problems, than on such as I heard him discuss.
I was reminded, in hearing all three, of men similarly engaged in our country, W.H.Charming and Theodore Parker.

None of them compare in the symmetrical arrangement of extempore discourse, or in pure eloquence and communication of spiritual beauty, with Charming, nor in fulness and sustained flow with Parker, but, in power of practical and homely adaptation of their thought to common wants, they are superior to the former, and all have more variety, finer perceptions, and are more powerful in single passages, than Parker.
And now my pen has run to 1st October, and still I have such notabilities as fell to my lot to observe while in London, and these that are thronging upon me here in Paris to record for you.