This is how one of my books on the Puritan and Pilgrim Fathers ends
“America has yet higher achievements and nobler victories before her. There are stains, dark stains, on her escutcheon. Good men blush at her boast of liberty. while these remain, and mean spirits triumph in her shame. Other memorials shall be reared in America to the fathers of her liberty; and when freedom has had her perfect triumph, Forefathers’s Day will be celebrated with rites worthy of its old memories. But England also claims a share in these old memories; and an interest in the power with which their lessons are so pregnant. She too has triumphs to achieve, ere the festival of liberty can be fitly celebrated.
Slowly and with sore difficulty each step is won. But her progress, too, is onward. The golden age is before her, her warning only behind. May the two nations learn to emulate each other only in such generous triumphs, while they cherish the feelings that ought to animate races in whose veins are circulating the same old Saxon blood.”
Slowly and with sore difficulty each step is won. But her progress, too, is onward. The golden age is before her, her warning only behind. May the two nations learn to emulate each other only in such generous triumphs, while they cherish the feelings that ought to animate races in whose veins are circulating the same old Saxon blood.”
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Forwarded from Book Club
There were apparently debates on whether or not women had souls in Virginia
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Forwarded from Book Club
Liberty as individualism would be a completely alien idea to the Puritans. Liberty as a concept was intrinsically tied to the body of the community and not in an equal distribution of privileges. This sentiment continued on into Revolutionary days.
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These excerpts are taken from Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer
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Forwarded from Presbyterian and Reformed (Peter Ramus)
Today's experimental Puritan popularizers couldn't even hold that rifle. @Presbyterianism
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