The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, With Biographical Introductions, Portraits, And Other Illustrations
The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, With Biographical Introductions, Portraits, And Other Illustrations
Stowe Harriet Beecher
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As I have often before intimated, the aristocracy of Mas- sachusetts consisted of two classes, the magistracy and the ministry; and these two, in this theocratic State, played into each other's hands continually. Next to the magis- trate and the minister, in the esteem of that community, came the schoolmaster; for education might be said to be the ruling passion of the State. The history of old New England families is marked by strong lights and deep shadows of personal peculiarity. We appeal t...o almost every old settler in New England towns, if he cannot remember stately old houses, inhabited Digitized by VjOOQIC 262 OLDTOWN FOLKS by old families, whose histories might be brought to mind by that of Miss Mehitable and her brother. There was in them a sort of intellectual vigor, a ceaseless activity of thought, a passion for reading and study, and a quiet brooding on the very deepest problems of mental and moral philosophy. The characteristic of such families is the greatly disproportioned force of the internal, intellectual, and spiritual life to the external one.
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