History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . IR ALLEY TO LEFT, EASTWARD. England frequently lopped ofif the best years of their find a repetition of this statement in Revolutionarytimes, when James Madison writes that inordinate drink-ing of hard liquor killed half the people. Some of theprejudice against drinking water arose from the fact that thelater safeguards and the methods of filtration were then nextto unknown and modern public hygiene not customary. Brainy Europeans, who knew Pilgrim history possiblybetter than the Pilgrims
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . IR ALLEY TO LEFT, EASTWARD. England frequently lopped ofif the best years of their find a repetition of this statement in Revolutionarytimes, when James Madison writes that inordinate drink-ing of hard liquor killed half the people. Some of theprejudice against drinking water arose from the fact that thelater safeguards and the methods of filtration were then nextto unknown and modern public hygiene not customary. Brainy Europeans, who knew Pilgrim history possiblybetter than the Pilgrims knew their own, exerted a powerfulinfluence on Pilgrim afifairs. One who only scans the life of the Reverend JohnRobinson becomes conscious of the rare spirit of the manwho not only personally guided the Pilgrims during their l82 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS lives in England and Holland, but prompted their going toAmerica. When one delves into his three books and sixty-odd essays still extant, his respect broadens into keen admira-tion. When Robinson wrote A man hath in truth so much. JJUTEK MAKKT OF AMSTERDAM. UROWNISTEK GANG TU THE LEFT. lOED ARCHIVE HOUSE). religion as he hath between the Lord and himself in secretand no more, he boxed the compass of religious life for alltime. The same spirit of Calvin in relation to Servetus, evi-dently smoldered in the hearts of Calvins followers. So in-tensely gripping were the tenets Free Will, Foreordination,Predestination, and other wisely unknowable but entranc-ingly attractive phases of the built-up religion of that daythat brotherhood was too often smudged in the war of Pilgrims were able to avoid these religious entangle-ments which on more than one occasion, when tainted withpartisan politics, ended in violence and wounds, shows thefibre of this unique people. In Leyden, pitched battles with THE SEPARATISTS IN HOLLAND 183 pistols and blunderbusses between the politico-religious par-ties, both called Christians,
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