The New England mind
By: by Perry Miller. [Vol.2], From colony to province.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 513
Table of contents: title: Book I. Declension. The wrath of Jehovah -- The Jeremiad -- The Protestant ethic -- The expanding limits of natural ability -- Hypocrisy -- Children of the covenant -- Half-way measures -- Revivalism -- Intolerance -- Propaganda -- Book II. Confusion. Profile of a provincial mentality -- Salvaging the covenant -- The judgment of the witches -- The dilemma of the sacraments -- Contention -- The failure of centralization -- The unresolved debate -- The poison of Wise’s cursed libel -- Book III. The splintering of society. A medium of trade -- Antiministerial sentiment -- The judgment of the smallpox -- A secular state -- A tender plant -- Book IV. The socialization of piety. Do-good -- Reason -- The experimental philosophy -- The death of an idea -- Polity as a form of patriotism -- Epilogue: vale atque ave.