Capitolo 1
THE EMANCIPATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
THE DREAM IS THE REALITY
FROM
BROOKS ADAMS
PREFATORY NOTE Á. PRIMA EDITION.
I am under the deepest obligations to the Hon. Chamberlain of Mellen and Mr.
Charles Deane.
The generosity of my friend the Mr. Frank Hamilton Cushing in to put to mine
disposition the unpublished results of its researches among the Zunis are in
holding with the originality and the power of his/her mind. Without the his/her my help
attempt would have been impossible. I have to also thank Prof. Henry C.
Chapman, J. A. Gordon, M. D., Prof. William James and Alpheus Hyatt,
Esq., for the gentleness with which you/they assisted me to them. I feel that some worth
this volume can possess it is due to these gentlemen; its guilts are mine
just.
BROOKS ADAMS.
QUINCY, _September_ 17, 1886.
CONTAINED.
PREFACE
CHAPTER ME. THE REPUBLIC
I CAPITULATE II. THE ANTINOMIANS
I CAPITULATE III. THE BASE IN CAMBRIDGE
I CAPITULATE IV. THE ANABAPTISTS
I CAPITULATE V. THE QUAKERS
CHAPTER YOU. THE SCIRE FACIAS
I CAPITULATE VII. THE WITCHCRAFT
I CAPITULATE VIII. CHURCH OF BRATTLE
I CAPITULATE IX. UNIVERSITY IN HARVARD
I CAPITULATE X. THE LAWYERS
I CAPITULATE XL. THE REVOLUTION
MAKES THE PREFACE TO TO NEW EDITION.
CHAPTER ME
I wrote more than thirty years ago this small volume, since when I have
really it didn't open him. I now read him/it therefore almost as if you/he/she was written from
another man, and I find to my relief that, on the whole one, I think rather,
better of him that I did when I published him/it. Indeed, as a criticism of
what was then the approved perspectives of history of Massachusetts, as exposed
from her more authoritative historians, I don't see anything in him to withdraw or
also to change. I repent rather however, the rather acrimonious tone
what I adopted every now and then when speaking of the more preservative
section of the clergy. Not that I think that the Mathers, for example and
them likes, you don't deserve all, or, indeed, more than all self I ever said or
thought of them, but because I conceive that equally real narrowings