. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. arned their language and trans-lated the whole Bible into Algonquin. This was the firsttime that the Indian speech had been reduced to writing,and Eliots was the first Bible printed in America. The most distinguished religious writers of the time wereCotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards. Cotton Mather(1663-1728) was the third of aline of famous New Englandpreachers and a man of mightyachievements. He entered Har-vard C
. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. arned their language and trans-lated the whole Bible into Algonquin. This was the firsttime that the Indian speech had been reduced to writing,and Eliots was the first Bible printed in America. The most distinguished religious writers of the time wereCotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards. Cotton Mather(1663-1728) was the third of aline of famous New Englandpreachers and a man of mightyachievements. He entered Har-vard College at eleven, waspreaching at seventeen, and aspastor of the North Church ofBoston exercised greater influ-ence than the governor of thecolony. He knew seven lan-guages ; some of his books arewritten in English, some inFrench, some in Spanish, somein Algonquin, while he quotesGreek and Hebrew great work is the Magnalia Christi Americana, orEcclesiastical History of New England. This is a hugebook, filling over a thousand folio pages. It contains thelives of eminent New England ministers; a history ofHarvard College, which was founded to train men for the. Go Hon c/flcdfisv! I48 THE COLONIAL WRITERS ministry; and accounts of the battles of the church withits enemies, among whom Mather counted witches, Indians,and Quakers. The Magnalia is to American literaturewhat Bedes Ecclesiastical History is to English literature. A second work of Mathers was The Wonders of theInvisible World, in which witchcraft was fully believed that the American continent was thespecial home of the Devil, where he had reigned withoutany interference for ages. The setting up of the churchin the land had angered the Devil terribly. He hadcome in person to wage war against it, and by means ofwitchcraft to confound even the godly ones. It all seemsabsurd enough now; but Mather and other leaders of thepeople were terribly in earnest, and to their influence isdue in large part
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