Tarry at home travels . ten with the dust of threedays upon them. You have not treated me thus. 346 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS If you did, these words would be as blank paper to states we have gone through. They are states which have made their place in the civilization of the world and need not be afraid of their in 1750dear EzraStiles, who wasquite compe-tent to thisduty, a p-proached thehistory of onehundred andthirty years ofNew England,he ventured to ? W,(^ ^ ^M H ?jl^:. |fl ^[^^^^1 ^H ^Lv^H iif^^^^^^M Ezra Stiles. prophesy. He had found out how often thepopulation of New
Tarry at home travels . ten with the dust of threedays upon them. You have not treated me thus. 346 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS If you did, these words would be as blank paper to states we have gone through. They are states which have made their place in the civilization of the world and need not be afraid of their in 1750dear EzraStiles, who wasquite compe-tent to thisduty, a p-proached thehistory of onehundred andthirty years ofNew England,he ventured to ? W,(^ ^ ^M H ?jl^:. |fl ^[^^^^1 ^H ^Lv^H iif^^^^^^M Ezra Stiles. prophesy. He had found out how often thepopulation of New England doubled; he sup-posed that it would double three or four times atthe same rate before another century ended in1850. He was sure that the religion of the Con- NEW YORK 347 gregational churches was the best in the was sure that the stuff of which Connecticutand Massachusetts were made was the best in theworld, and he calculated, therefore, that in 1850six or seven million of us would be living in the. Emigration to the Western Country. four New England colonies of his day, — wtU, letus own it, — that this confederated little nationwould be as well advanced in the world as anyof the old Englands or Hollands or France orSpain. He did not conceive it possible that anyman in his senses would ever move west of the 348 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS Hudson River to live. Dear Ezra Stiles, I amafraid that he never pardoned his friend Frank-lin for establishing himself in Philadelphia. It has not turned out just as Ezra Stiles meantit should, but when I go to Tiajuana, and whenI spend a Sunday in Vienna, and when I takemy coffee in the arbor in the Alhambra, and Irun against a compatriot who has one of the NewEngland names or those of their New York cousins,I am apt to find that he is glad to tell me that hisforbears eight or nine generations ago came overwith Brewster or Winthrop or Davenport or theScotch-Irish or Knickerbocker or do not find that those who com
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