Word: puritans
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...called "with due regard to the original metaphor" is almost too delightful and original a theory to be spoiled by the prosaic recital of fact. Still, as everyone even slightly acquainted with English history should know, it was named after a member for the city of London, a puritan with the puritanical name of Praise-God Barebones. His brother, by the way, bore the still more astounding name of "If-Christ-had-not-come- thou-wouldst-have-been-damned Barebones...
...same in one place as in another and that by the immutable statute of Massachusetts it is different at different times of the year. The manifold complexities of the problem indicate that it may be better to simplify the situation, and by a further extension of Puritan dialectic render tenns playing unobjectionable at all times. After all it's a pretty good game and rather more conducive to brotherly love than driving about on a crowded Sunday afternoon highway...
Song of the Puritan...
...Background of the Puritan Revolution", Professor Whitney, Emerson...
...story of Duster's dismissal from the College has generally been related as an instance of Puritan bigotry and intolerance. Dunster, since his arrival, had been an orthodox Calvinist and member of the Cambridge Church but by careful study he reached the conclusion, some time in 1653, that the baptism of infants was unauthorized by scripture. Accordingly he refused to present for baptism his son who was horn in the fall of that year. The news that President Dunster had become a Baptist created about the same sensation in the Colony as would be aroused in the country today...