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What really distinguished the Puritans in their day was that they were less interested in theology itself than in the application of theology to everyday life. They were less concerned with perfecting their formulation of the truth than with making their society in America embody this truth. Down to the middle of the 18th cent, there was hardly an important work of speculative theology or a major theologian produced by the New England Orthodoxy. In New England the critics, doubters & dissenters were expelled from the community. In England the Puritans had to find ways of living with them. It was in England, therefore, that a modern theory of toleration began to develop. The characteristic institution of Puritanism here was the sermon, a ritualistic application of theology to community-building. The problems which worried the Puritans in New England were 3: (a) how to select leaders & representatives, (b) what was the proper limit of pol'al power, & (c) what made a feasible federal org. All the circumstances of New England life - tradition, theology, & the problems of the New World - combined to nourish concern with such practical problems as these. US Puritans were hardly more distracted from their practical tasks by theology & metaphysics than we are today. J. A. Fishman.

Ballads and Broadsides illustrating the period of the Great Rebellion, 1640-1660

p. 6 ; columns 4–5 ; 15 ¼ col. in. ; The morals of the country, including the practice of polygamy, are beyond legislation and should not lead to the obliteration of Utah Territory.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Ice on the California Riviera -- Likely Story -- The Ice Window -- The Icemen Cometh -- The Ice Plan -- 2. Creating Guadalupe's Salad Days -- The Southern Pacific Ice Pact -- The Lettuce Train -- Ice Hardware -- Icing on the Train -- Odd Little Man -- Ice Needs Produce Needs Ice Needs Produce -- The Ice Expansion -- 3. Ice Wars on State Street -- Icing the Competition -- Domestic Ice -- Depression-era Ice -- 4. Borders of Empire in Oxnard -- Southern Lettuce -- Union Ice Never Plays Nice -- Icing Oxnard -- 5. Poultry Utopia in Atascadero -- Gay Engineering Believes in Atascadero -- The Lewis Snowball Melts -- Willett Wills a Future -- Chicken Man -- Most Chickens in One Place on the Planet -- Back in the Dumps -- 6. Ice in the Fields of Lompoc -- Fields of Ideals -- Tempering -- Growth Industries -- Riding the Bear -- Fits and Starts -- Vistadores Days -- Seeds of Destruction -- Birdseye on the Future -- Lompoc's Meltdown -- 7. Darker Days in Guadalupe -- Cold and Calculating -- The Sins of the Fathers -- Local Dynasty -- Winds of War -- Ticklish Task -- Freezing Point -- Nothing Is the Same -- Frozen Assets -- Frozen Out -- West Versus East, on a Small Scale -- 8. Ice in the Desert -- Blythe, in Shorthand -- Palo Verde Perishables -- Planning for War -- A Grande Move -- Production Runs -- The Southern California Market -- Air Lettuce -- The Reorg -- 9. Meltwaters -- New Lease on Life -- Closing Chapters -- Postscript -- Telling the Puritan Story -- Publication Notes -- Holes in the Ice -- Notes -- About the Author.

I have been told that when Charles de Gaulle was asked what something he had said would mean to an ordinary Frenchman, he replied, "I do not know, I'm not an ordinary Frenchman." Similarly, I suppose I am not an ordinary reader of this book, A Religious History of the American People (Yale University Press; 1158 + xvi pp.; $19.95), but one who has for many years been surveying the same hills and valleys that Sydney Ahlstrom has traversed with camera and notebook. But while I have worked more as a topographer with the hope of making a usable map for the guidance of any who might wish to follow, Ahlstrom has pulled together an imposing slide show of the terrain and its inhabitants—a travelogue made up of thousands of discrete snapshots given unity primarily by the fact that all were taken by the same historically conditioned person.