The+Crucible

[|HISTORY OF PURITANISM] "But if we regard Puritanism as a way of seeing the world, as an excruciating but exquisite program of self-scrutiny by which the stirrings of grace might be acknowledged and the divinely sanctioned energies of the soul put to use--in both benevolent and violently destructive ways--then we must account it the dominant spiritual regimen of early America." See above link for more on this.

HISTORICAL NY TIMES ASSIGNMENT