History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . came from Norfolk, seventeen fromKent, eleven from Essex, and the remainder from the long stay in Holland had given the wanderers theirpublic school lesson and most of their political experiences,besides mellowing their spirits, it is therefore no flattery tosay that the Pilgrims were liberal and broadminded; in asense cosmopolitan. The Town Meeting, first in the New World worked outby the Pilgrim, came in quick succession from Saxon, Eng-lish and Jute tribes, to the day when tailors we
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . came from Norfolk, seventeen fromKent, eleven from Essex, and the remainder from the long stay in Holland had given the wanderers theirpublic school lesson and most of their political experiences,besides mellowing their spirits, it is therefore no flattery tosay that the Pilgrims were liberal and broadminded; in asense cosmopolitan. The Town Meeting, first in the New World worked outby the Pilgrim, came in quick succession from Saxon, Eng-lish and Jute tribes, to the day when tailors were hide-mer-chants. The common inheritances of England and Germanycannot be ignored. It is to the glory of the English racethat these inheritances have been so nobly developed, tothe blessing of all humanity. These men of faith andprayer on the Speedwell and Mayflower had more to dowith the government of this world, and certainly with its im-provement, than certain able sinners of fame who worecrowns and claimed divine right to rule their fellows. LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS 301 4fc» L ^^ M m 1. 302 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS The line of the eleven Divine Righters (barring theGreat Commoner), who imagined they ruled New^ England,began with James I and ended with George III. These
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