History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . in thehands of the conquerors, while agroveling humanity was chainedto the chariot wheels of a mili-tary machine. A thousand freemen, giftedwith those prerogatives evervouchsafed to the free, could and did vanquish an hundredthousand vassals, as the worlds history proves again andagain. We of New England stock recognize the same domi-nant spirit aflame when our ancestors crossed purposes andweapons with the League Indians, or, in protest against out-raged law, threw down the battle-gage in the Revo
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . in thehands of the conquerors, while agroveling humanity was chainedto the chariot wheels of a mili-tary machine. A thousand freemen, giftedwith those prerogatives evervouchsafed to the free, could and did vanquish an hundredthousand vassals, as the worlds history proves again andagain. We of New England stock recognize the same domi-nant spirit aflame when our ancestors crossed purposes andweapons with the League Indians, or, in protest against out-raged law, threw down the battle-gage in the Revolution. Though Rome stopped short of representation throughdelegation—that emperor-curber and foe to centralizationand unstable nation-building—it judiciously added to Orien-tal methods of conquest as exampled by Persia, a mightyincentive, when it said to the inhabitants of every capturedprovince and country: You are now Romans, and entitledto many of the privileges that become your high estate. V O R M MAP OF BRITAIN 449 , SHOW-ING THE ISLE OF THANET. PURITAN AND PILGRIM FOUNDATIONS. AUGUSTINE BRINGING THE STORY OF THE CROSS TO THE ANGLO-SAXON KING ETHELBERHT AND QUEEN BERCTA ON THE ISLE OF THANET. HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS
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