Sunday, January 05, 2025
Descendants of the Puritans
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), The Sea Lions, Chapter VII:
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Of such materials are those descendants of the Puritans composed; a mixture of good and evil; of the religion which clings to the past, in recollection rather than in feeling, mingled with a worldly-mindedness that amounts nearly to rapacity; all cloaked and rendered decent by a conventional respect for duties, and respectable and useful, by frugality, enterprise, and untiring activity.
