The Emancipation of Massachusetts

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Adams Brooks. The Emancipation of Massachusetts

PREFACE TO NEW EDITION

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

THE EMANCIPATION OF MASSACHUSETTS

CHAPTER I. – THE COMMONWEALTH

CHAPTER II. – THE ANTINOMIANS

CHAPTER III. – THE CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM

CHAPTER IV. – THE ANABAPTISTS

CHAPTER V. – THE QUAKERS

CHAPTER VI. – THE SCIRE FACIAS

CHAPTER VII. – THE WITCHCRAFT

CHAPTER VIII. – BRATTLE CHURCH

CHAPTER IX. – HARVARD COLLEGE

CHAPTER X. – THE LAWYERS

CHAPTER XI. – THE REVOLUTION

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I wrote this little volume more than thirty years ago, since when I have hardly opened it. Therefore I now read it almost as if it were written by another man, and I find to my relief that, on the whole, I think rather better of it than I did when I published it. Indeed, as a criticism of what were then the accepted views of Massachusetts history, as expounded by her most authoritative historians, I see nothing in it to retract or even to modify. I do, however, somewhat regret the rather acrimonious tone which I occasionally adopted when speaking of the more conservative section of the clergy. Not that I think that the Mathers, for example, and their like, did not deserve all, or, indeed, more than all I ever said or thought of them, but because I conceive that equally effective strictures might have been conveyed in urbaner language; and, as I age, I shrink from anything akin to invective, even in what amounts to controversy.

Therefore I have now nothing to alter in the Emancipation of Massachusetts, viewed as history, though I might soften its asperities somewhat, here and there; but when I come to consider it as philosophy, I am startled to observe the gap which separates the present epoch from my early middle life.

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“Surely they shall not see the land which I swear unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

“But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went;…”

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