So far as religious affairs are concerned, the colonial period of our history begins with the planting of the first permanent English colony in 1607, guided by the intention to perpetuate in the new land the religious patterns to which the mother country had grown accustomed. Chief of these for our purposes was uniformity enforced by the civil power. The period culminates just 180 years later with the complete rejection of this central intention in the provisions for national religious freedom in the Constitution (1787) and First Amendment (1791).

IN THE BEGINNING I would like to try to be perfectly clear about what I should like to say, for I do not think I can say it with perfect clarity. I am depending on Emerson's principle that often there is good listening where there is poor preaching. I learned to confront every class with the assumption that there were better minds than mine in it. I am sure that every teacher has been thrilled, as have I, by a pupil who turned one of his or her vague notions indifferently presented into a brilliant insight. The trick in teaching is to give the students the opportunity and the courage thus to improve upon the teacher's thinking. One of the real compliments I have received during my checkered professional career came from a dean who told me that my greatest and perhaps my only value on his faculty was that I gave the students the impression that if I could do it, anyone could.

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George William Pilcher. Samuel Davies: Apostle of Dissent in Colonial Virginia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1971. Pp. xi, 229. $9.75 Pilcher George William. Samuel Davies: Apostle of Dissent in Colonial Virginia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1971. Pp. xi, 229. $9.75. Sidney E. Mead Sidney E. Mead University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 77, Issue 3, June 1972, Pages 830–831, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/77.3.830 Published: 01 June 1972

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Journal Article William G. Mcloughlin. The Meaning of Henry Ward Beecher: An Essay on the Shifting Values of Mid-Victorian America, 1840–1870. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1970. Pp. xiii, 275, viii. $7.95 Get access Mcloughlin William G.. The Meaning of Henry Ward Beecher: An Essay on the Shifting Values of Mid-Victorian America, 1840–1870. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1970. Pp. xiii, 275, viii. $7.95. Sidney E. Mead Sidney E. Mead University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 76, Issue 5, December 1971, Pages 1603–1604, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/76.5.1603 Published: 01 December 1971

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