Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . Connecticuts chil-dren since its foundation: one of the four Americans who aspure thinkers apart from literary or executive work, haveoverpassed the bounds of State, sectional, or even nationalfame and influence, and belong to the World. It is signifi-cant, and might give pause to those who unthinkingly parrotthe sneers at the Puritan system that every one of these wasthe product of the blue New England order. Three wereMassachusetts men—Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Thomp-son, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the fourth was Edw
Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . Connecticuts chil-dren since its foundation: one of the four Americans who aspure thinkers apart from literary or executive work, haveoverpassed the bounds of State, sectional, or even nationalfame and influence, and belong to the World. It is signifi-cant, and might give pause to those who unthinkingly parrotthe sneers at the Puritan system that every one of these wasthe product of the blue New England order. Three wereMassachusetts men—Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Thomp-son, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the fourth was Edwards,recognised even by Europeans as one of the great metaphy-iscians of all time. Worthy to stand beside Aquinas andSpinoza and Kant. His life was simple on the outside: thegreat events of such mens lives are internal, or the embodi-ments of unseen mental processes. Edwards remained twen-ty-three years in charge of a Congregational church at North-ampton, Mass., and with a rudimentary flexibility of temper(or a little of that sense of humor which means a balanced 302.
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