Edith H. Allen
Capitolo 4
it is all the functions of _time_.
The first fathers didn't have any thought to found a nation when they looked for
shelter and a new beginning on this continent. Jamestown, New York, Plymouth
and their setups that overcome the possibilities of the system were intensely individualistic. Them
it was the individual Rider, Hollander or Wandering, only in greater
proportions, bearing all of their characteristics.
To appreciate the characteristics and spirit of these farmers,
we have to consider the special meaning of the age that has given
them the birth. "They was the children of one century in that the
human spirit had a new birth in energy of the imagination, in faith
in his/her powers to greatly challenge and to greatly realize." [The footnote:
Hamilton Wright Mabie--American Ideals, Character and the Life.]
They was inhaled more strongly by religious aspirations,
even if combining with these impelling the political sentences.
In the Puritanical colony, "affiliation in the church for of the time
remained a qualification to vote."
"In almost each document that brought authority discoverers,
explorers and farmers in the New World, the Christian religion
you/he/she was recognized." [The footnote: Hamilton Wright Mabie--American
Ideals, Character and the Life.]
Their faith was of heroic quality of the steadiness of stone,; them
the obedience to the duty as they saw him/it to them, almost absolute.
The Bible practiced an awful influence. Not only it was them
it drives religious and teacher, but it was also their library, daily
companion and for of the time their only literature. It became
beaten in the a lot of fiber of their thought.
This that dominates religious attitude, while it was changing in the
different types--the Friends, Huguenots Moravians--it gave the
I impelled on which have had so strongly a formative influence the
the life of the nation.
Fully recognizing the incalculable value of this first religious
contribution, we cannot even succeed in making I count us some limitations of