History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . school. Reformers forced the fate of our forefathers to thefore, some in death flaring as lighted candles to a dyingworld. None confronted persecution more unflinchinglythan John Knox of Edinburgh who almost single handed andalone as leader, lifted Scotland out of semi-barbarism tothe status of Christian civilization, and this little country hada system of free public education long before England. PURITAN AND PILGRIM FOUNDATIONS 59 oo X w MO wPI oc: MW2 > nocl. 6o HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PU


History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . school. Reformers forced the fate of our forefathers to thefore, some in death flaring as lighted candles to a dyingworld. None confronted persecution more unflinchinglythan John Knox of Edinburgh who almost single handed andalone as leader, lifted Scotland out of semi-barbarism tothe status of Christian civilization, and this little country hada system of free public education long before England. PURITAN AND PILGRIM FOUNDATIONS 59 oo X w MO wPI oc: MW2 > nocl. 6o HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS John Knox, the strenuous educator as well as fearlessReformer, claimed before he died, and through his efifortsproved the claim, that every tow^n in Scotland should have aschool and every large city a university. This thirst for human life because of differences intheological opinions ran w^ild riot each side of the Con-formist barrier. One finds this same bloodthirsty spirit inlodgings with Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer, whose hatred


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