By Andrew Delbanco
Greater than an ecclesiastical or political background, this ebook is a brilliant description of the earliest American immigrant event. It depicts the dramatic story of the seventeenth-century novices to our beaches as they have been drawn and driven to make their manner in an unsettled and unsettling global.
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He did, to be sure, make certain gestures of conciliation that seem to have been aimed at the Puritan opposition itself-proposing a "conference or disputation ... for the ending of contentions," and insisting that "it is no part of my secret meaning to draw you hereby into hatred, or to set upon the face of this cause any fairer glass than the naked truth doth afford; but my whole endeavour is to resolve the conscience ... without either cloud of prejudice, or mist of passionate affection. "2 Hooker's disclaimer notwithstanding, there was a "secret meaning" in the Laws.
One would throw another's hat out of the window, and both would go out to get it, and neither would be seen again. Or now and then half a dozen of them would get together and march out openly, staring at you, and making fun of you to your face. Still others, worse yet, would crowd about the bar, and at the expense of the host drink themselves sodden, paying not the least attention to anyone, and leaving it to be thought that either they had danced with the bride already, or meant to later on. All these things were going on now, and the family was helpless with dismay.
28 Our best historians have made scattered forays into this dialectic, but not in any systematic way. Tocqueville (and his many followers) made paramount the relative absence of class antagonism in early THE PURITAN ORDEAL 20 republican America, and suggested thereby that the appetite for enmity within American culture fed on the presence (or perceived presence) of aliens-those who were racially or nationally distinct-rather than on the next social rank that threatened from above or below. This is one way, but only one, by which we may approach the nature of evil as it has been culturally defined in America.
