Word: 1670s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original American Puritans understood passion as well as human frailty: in Plymouth in the 1670s, while ordinary fornicators were fined ?10, those who were engaged had to pay only half the fine. But a fatal fact about Puritanism, which led to its ever-increasing narrowness and decline, was its conviction that virtue could be legislated by the community, that human perfection could be organized on earth...