A Documentary History of American Thought and SocietyCharles Robert Crowe Allyn and Bacon, 1965 - 412 pages |
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... POOR ( 1760 ) : BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am for doing good to the poor , but I differ in opinion about the means . I think the best way of doing good to the poor , is , not making them easy in poverty , but leading or driving them out of it ...
... POOR ( 1760 ) : BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am for doing good to the poor , but I differ in opinion about the means . I think the best way of doing good to the poor , is , not making them easy in poverty , but leading or driving them out of it ...
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... poor . Under all these obligations , are our poor modest , humble , and thankful ? And do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves , and lighten our shoulders of this burthen ? On the contrary , I affirm , that there is no ...
... poor . Under all these obligations , are our poor modest , humble , and thankful ? And do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves , and lighten our shoulders of this burthen ? On the contrary , I affirm , that there is no ...
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... poor ] are perishing ; yes , perishing in the nineteenth century ; perishing in Boston , wealthy , charitable Boston ... poor , vagrant in your streets , shut out by their misery from the culture of the age ; growing up to fill your ...
... poor ] are perishing ; yes , perishing in the nineteenth century ; perishing in Boston , wealthy , charitable Boston ... poor , vagrant in your streets , shut out by their misery from the culture of the age ; growing up to fill your ...
Contents
PURITANISM AND THE ORIGINS | 1 |
PURITANISM AND POLITICS | 10 |
THE ARTS THE SCIENCES AND PURITANISM | 20 |
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American Anarchism AUTHORS beauty believe called Catholic century Charles Peirce Christian churches civilization common conception Constitution Cotton Mather culture democracy democratic doctrine earth economic Emerson England equal established evil existence experience fact faith force freedom George Ripley Henry Henry Thoreau Herman Melville human ican ideas immigrant Indians individual industrial institutions intellectual Jacksonian James James Fenimore Cooper Jefferson John John Dewey labor land legislation liberty living major mankind means ment mind modern moral nature Negro never party philosophy poet political principle progress Protestant Puritan race Ralph Waldo Emerson reason reform religion religious Republican Revolution Romantic SELECTIONS sense slave slavery social society soul South Southern spirit struggle Theodore Parker things Thomas Jefferson Thoreau thought tion Transcendentalists truth Union Unitarian United universal Utopian virtue wealth William William Ellery Channing wished writers