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...reason. This sense of mission, first religious, then political, has persisted from the beginning. Perry Miller has defined the mission for colonial New England in his rich metaphor of an errand into the wilderness. Seeing a play on the word "errand," he has explained how the first Puritan settlers came to America running one sort of errand, for a higher power--the Puritan Church in England--and how they ended the seventeenth century running, necessarily, an errand that was its own cause and justification...
John William Ward, in The Reporter, describes the book as a latter- day "jeremiad," that first peculiarly American literary form wherein Puritan reverends took their congregations to task for real--or imagined--sinfulness. His description of this aspect of the book is particularly apt. William James defined the uneasiness that produces religious feeling as "a sense that there is something wrong about us as we naturally stand." His observation applies to nations as well, especially to one so given to jeremiads as our own. Historians, like individuals, tell and retell their stories, hoping finally to tell them right, to arrive...
This year the Quakers will again succumb docilely to their heartier Puritan brethren. Having lost its two top scorers by graduation, Penn might even be hard-pressed to score when it plays the Crimson at the Business School field today...
...surface, Kirkland House is drab. Its Georgian architecture seems to have been designed by an unconvinced Puritan, and, if anything has happened there recently, few outsiders remember hearing...
Heimert currently teaches a course in seventeenth century religious literature, centering on Puritan writings and the response to them in England and American...