...ived the ancestral spirit, which a weariness of the gloomy superstitions, mixed with Puritanism, had, for a long time, overshadowed. But now all hearts ran together in the study of the character of New England 's fathers; and liberty became the dearer as men read at large through what sorrow, and self-denial, and cost of life it had been purchased. New England seemed summoned to play a great part in the...