. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . rds. Their conquerorswere friendly to the whites, and were ready to swoopdown upon the Indians of Pennsylvania if they harmedthe Quakers.^ This was what gave Penn safety. But he had morethan safety: he had the friendship of the red men, and tliis hewon chiefly because he was one of the few white men who treatedthem not as inferiors, but as equals, and because he was careful to do by them as he would have liked them to do by him. Pennstayed two years in America. He lived at first in a small cottage,now in Fairmount Park, Philad
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . rds. Their conquerorswere friendly to the whites, and were ready to swoopdown upon the Indians of Pennsylvania if they harmedthe Quakers.^ This was what gave Penn safety. But he had morethan safety: he had the friendship of the red men, and tliis hewon chiefly because he was one of the few white men who treatedthem not as inferiors, but as equals, and because he was careful to do by them as he would have liked them to do by him. Pennstayed two years in America. He lived at first in a small cottage,now in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, the bricks for which werebrought from England. He was finally obliged to return to Eng-\an(J, and visited his Woodland but once more. The city grew. Schools were opened when it was only oneyear old, and — a new thing in those days—they were for girls Educationas well as boys. Children could be taught to read for four shil- 0*^3Jfrs andlings a term, and for eight sliillings they could learn reading, Puritans Fiskes Dutch and Quaker Colonies in PENNS AUTOGRAPHAND SEAL 104 OUR COUNTRYS STORY Growth ofthe city writing, and arithmetic. The Quaker belief in regard to educa-tion was quite different from that of the Puritans, Both wereeager to miderstand the Bible aright. The Puritans thought thatthe more of a student a man was, the better chance he would have of knowing justwhat every verse inthe Bible meant. Thatis why the Puritanswere so anxious tofound a college. The(Quakers thought thatif one simply learnedto read, God would putinto his heart the mean-ing of what was said inthe Bible. That is whythey did not think it was necessary to have a college, althoughthey wished their children to have a common school education. Philadelphia grew rapidly and soon became the largest city inthe colonies, retaining that distinction for many years. Two yearsafter Penns arrival the first printing press in the middle colonieswas established in Philadelphia. There, too, was pu
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