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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 1 : the pioneers (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 2 : the first colonial literature (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 3 : the third and fourth generation (search)
Chapter 3: the third and fourth generation
When the eighteenth century opened, many signs of change were in the air. The third generation of native-born Americans was becoming secularized.
The theocracy of New England had failed.
In the height of the tragic folly over the supposed witchcraft in Salem, Increase Mather and hi r thus defined the Americans: They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes.
From this promiscuous breed that race now called Americans has arisen.
The Atlantic seaboard, with a narrow strip inland, was fairly well covered by local communities, differing in blood, in religion, in political organ , John Bartram, James Logan, James Godfrey, Cadwallader Colden, and above all, Franklin himself, were winning the respect of European students, and were teaching Americans to use their eyes and their minds not merely upon the records of the past but in searching out the inexhaustible meanings of the present.
There is no more fasci
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 4 : the revolution (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 5 : the Knickerbocker group (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 6 : the Transcendentalists (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7 : romance, poetry, and history (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 9 : Union and Liberty (search)
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10 : a New nation (search)