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behind. Of late he had crossed th< wide n i the language and retain the law of th< M ther-Jand, while im organized a Church withoul asking 1 r. of

any one. and set up an English Si ill by hftnSftlf,

[u thought and act the Pilgrim was thoi .uglily an Independent himself, and the rightful I under fan Independent State.

The Puritan had no understanding and ii". .ii prion

of equality of all men before the law. He had b i <

familiar with class distinction- and he did not dislike them. Indeed, he had never known any other wa There were many men and women at the I y

who belonged to the gentry. They broughl with then to the New World the English passion for Ian Ip sessions. Each man of them wanted a domain 1 r himself and his descendants. I am not saying that he was the worse for this, but only that he was not crying for the corner-stone principle of our American national life. The first school the Puritan Stan- in Massachusetts set up was a college after the lOnglish plan, to train the sons of the higher classes for t he offi :es i the Church and State. There was little thought ofi lmation for the children of the poor. It was naturallybat it wtis so. Governor Winthrop frequently I I

of the "common people." As good an a u t h o r i t y as k, Charles Francis Adams says: The common / were whipped ami set in the Stocks When th \ mis! *

haved themselves. The gentry were fined and admonished." One of their criminal statutes i ads: N man shall be beaten with above fort) stripes, nor shall any true gentleman, nor any man equal to a ithui. , be punished with whipping, unless his crime i hameful and his course of life vicious and protligau The suffrage was limited to the people of his liking H is not trange thai it was so, but It i mains that It

was so.

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' «' Pilgrim, on the other hand, |0v< i th< mmon brotherhood andput a >onanequal f \\\» n. had < " " moreofthe world and n had wldomul soutl and changed his feeling. IV..,,, u,,. | ..,„„ , . ,„ ,