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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 22 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 16 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 12 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 4: Edwards (search)
consequences and being impelled by no momentary preponderance of the one or the other from his innate disposition, deliberately and freely chooses what is evil and painful. Such an account of human action is monstrous, inconceivable; it offered an easy mark for so sharp a logician as Edwards. But whence arise the conditions by which a man's inclination is swayed in one direction or the other? Edwards carries these unflinchingly up to the first cause,--that is, as a Christian, to God. Berkeley had made the world to consist of ideas evoked in the mind of man by the mind of God; Edwards accepts the logical conclusion, and holds God responsible for the inclination of the human will which depends on these ideas. Calvin did not hesitate to attribute, in the bluntest language, the source of evil to God's will, but at the same time he warned men against intruding with their finite reason into this sanctuary of the divine wisdom. The mind of Edwards could not rest while any problem see
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 5: philosophers and divines, 1720-1789 (search)
te of Yale College in 1714, a disciple of George Berkeley when he came to Rhode Island in 1729 and,ance between extremes. Like the Alciphron of Berkeley, to whom the Elements was dedicated, Johnson' and unaccountable enthusiasm, as he wrote to Berkeley, rages like an epidemical frenzy and, by divi use of the satirical paraphrase, he rendered Berkeley plausible by the glamour of his style. He wa against the doctrine of necessity. But when Berkeley himself came to America, the neophyte fell ince. The correspondence between Johnson and Berkeley was the most notable in the history of early It is a great literary loss that not all of Berkeley's letters have been recovered, for in them, aohnson's correspondence, then, one can gather Berkeley's own notions as to archetypes, ectypes, spacd not live to see it, but, as was remarked by Berkeley's son, this little book contained the wisdom ed the author to be very capable of spreading Berkeley's philosophy. The spreading of that system