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Where did the missionary impulse come from? David Treadup's heritage was somewhat ambiguous as it bore on his calling. On his mother's side: a line of New England divines, shrewd petty manufacturers, and farmers... On his father's: the vigor, tough athleticism, self-sufficiency, and forest raptures of...
The 19th century bourgeoisie acquired its dismal reputation partly because of what Gay calls its "lust to conceal" and partly because historians have been too inclined to listen to its cultural leaders, its pedagogues, its doctors and divines, who imposed on their society what Gay calls "learned ignorance." Any aspect...
The reader is plunged into a make belief, not a make-believe world. Herman Melville's novel The Confidence-Man was an early and largely forgotten guide. More studied than read, the book conjured up a group of impostors, gamblers, land agents and divines on an 1850s Mississippi riverboat...
His predecessors belonged to a fiercer school of Gospel-booming sockdolagy: back-country camp-meeting divines, like Charles Finney, exhaling vivid damnations and, later, out of the '20s, Billy Sunday, in white spats and straw skimmer, ranting indictments of "hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge-columned, mush-fisted, jelly-spined...
She also rings up her astrologer for consultations, keeps a sharp watch on the configurations of the heavens, and divines that Capricorns like herself "are aggressive and workaholics. I am certainly a workaholic. Capricorn women also display an incredibly cold sexuality." She is quick to add, how ever, "I can...