Word: beesting
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...from the start. Our so-called Protestant ethic would appear to endorse rugged individualism as the engine of hard work, but in fact the Puritan fathers were mainly concerned with individuals as contributors to a social compact. From John Cotton's The Way of Life (1641): "If thou beest a man that lives without a calling, though thou hast two thousands to spend, yet if thou hast no calling, tending to publique good, thou art an uncleane beast." From John Winthrop (1630), the first American to see the new land as a "City upon a Hill": "If thy brother...
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