The fountain : with jets of new meanings . A DREAM TOLD BY THE PURITAN MOTHERS TO THE PURITAN FATHERS. 11 Too Good to be True! thusiasm ; no dreams of progression. Their dogmatictheology and inflexible morals, their opinionatedbigotries and austerities, their contempt for that whichis merely beautiful, and their reverence only for thedownright useful and hard necessities of a prosaic life—all promising symptoms of powerful attributes ofcharacter and conquest—made them practically theo-cratic in their views and administration of government,—to flee from the wrath of which, Roger Williams, NATIO
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . A DREAM TOLD BY THE PURITAN MOTHERS TO THE PURITAN FATHERS. 11 Too Good to be True! thusiasm ; no dreams of progression. Their dogmatictheology and inflexible morals, their opinionatedbigotries and austerities, their contempt for that whichis merely beautiful, and their reverence only for thedownright useful and hard necessities of a prosaic life—all promising symptoms of powerful attributes ofcharacter and conquest—made them practically theo-cratic in their views and administration of government,—to flee from the wrath of which, Roger Williams, NATIONOIDS IN AMERICA. 71 the first great American Baptist, was compelled toseek protection and freedom in the bosom of ^iSS^jlS ^ PURITANISM ATTEMPTS THE DESTRUCTION OP EVERY OTHER PORM OFINDEPENDENCE. In the Puritan stock we find a variety of thehardest and strongest elements. We are interested init deeply ; because, according to the laws of hereditarytransmission of qualities, America is entitled to a greatcareer; and because, also, there are already signs ofthe formation of many nationoids upon this magnifi-cent and beautiful continent. Inspiration burned and throbbed within the veryheart of this new world. Not political, not social, notindustrial; nay, it was a religious cause that broughtthe Mayflower to Plymouth Pock. The laws andconditions of Truth—inspiration and aspiration of theEternal Eight—are manifested, first, in Evolution, 72 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. and, second, in Perception. Between the first and therealization of the second whole generations of menmay come and go. Two hundred years upon theAmerican soil, and yet it is doubtful whether, even atthis day, the Perception of the possibi
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