History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . tion. Their condition wasalso worse there. A large proportion of the white popula-tion everywhere was of Saxon-Teutonicblood. The colonial leaders, and manyothers, at least in the North, were menwho would have been eminent in Englanditself. Not a few New England theolo-gians and lawyers were peers to the ablestof their time. Numbers of the commonpeople read, reflected, debated. While pro-foundly religious, the colonists, being nearlyall Protestants, were bold and progressivethinkers in every line, prizing
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . tion. Their condition wasalso worse there. A large proportion of the white popula-tion everywhere was of Saxon-Teutonicblood. The colonial leaders, and manyothers, at least in the North, were menwho would have been eminent in Englanditself. Not a few New England theolo-gians and lawyers were peers to the ablestof their time. Numbers of the commonpeople read, reflected, debated. While pro-foundly religious, the colonists, being nearlyall Protestants, were bold and progressivethinkers in every line, prizing discussion,preferring to settle questions by rationalmethods rather than through authority andtradition. We have observed that thereare exceptions to this rule, like the treat-ment of Roger Williams, but they wereexceptions. The colonists possessed ineminent degree energy, determination. 3°2 ENGLISH AMERICA [1750 power of patient endurance and political genius, too, was striking initself, and it becomes surprising if one com-pares Germany, in the unspeakable distrac-. Costume about the Middle of the Seventeenth Century. tion of the Thirty Years War, with Americaat the same period, 1618-1648, successfullysolving by patience and debate the veryproblems which were Germanys despair. In all the southern colonies the EnglishChurch was established, a majority of the i75oJ SOCIAL CULTURE 303 people its members, its clergy supportedby tithes and glebe. William and Marysecured it a sort of establishment also inNew York and Maryland. Yet at no mo-
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