spineless pinko's update

[Carl Remick]

>In New
>England the first settlers were hugely religious.  The same period that
>led to the rise and then fall of puritanism in England through the long
>Parliament and the civil war was paralleled by developments here.  Except
>that the Puritans weren't overthrown here in 1660.
>
>Michael

In a sense, the New England Puritans overthrew themselves, with their creed 
becoming more abstracted and rarefied as it evolved into Transcendentalism.  
Emerson, after all, was a very irreligious spiritual leader.

Carl
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