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The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams

Brooks Adams

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017-08-07
主題	Literary Collections / General
ISBN	19743178899781974317882
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k6KSswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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.