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now neighbors were old acquaintances In a way, : r they were Puritans, representat Ives of one ol t h twi leading parties In English Protestantism and English politics. No \ ord of ours ran, oven by Impltcatl n, be mad > do otherwise than yield honor to the spirit of English Puritanism, No greater or more hemic spirit ever breathed among men, Without intending it. and nlmost in spite o( Itself, it has been the most i tent tor In the grow th of individuality, in the upbuilding of character, and in the evolution o( popular lit rty. Its coldly logical creed sharpened the faith o( men and made o( the faithful the best fighters the world has over seen. For the cause the\ espoused thes could cheerfully die, bul never yield. Sincere, undoubting, dreadfully In earnest, singing and praying and preach ing and fighting together, they made the fields of Naseby and Dunbar and Marston Moor grounds w htch Inspire the progress of the human race, for upon them the] taught theStuart kings and all the world logo tin the grim lesson thai If there are divine rights among men they are Inherent In the people and not In tin kings V.nd8o iiu> Puritan stock wa i good one to enter Into the composition of a new nation, bul the Puritan spirit must be chastened and moderated before it tuld give the artist touch to the spirit of llbertj .. oss thi »i i it was to be D softened I'm nan eharact< r, a"'plili' I in tho Pilgrim at Plymouth, rather than

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