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The Puritan Heritage: America's Roots in the Bible
The Puritan Heritage America's Roots in the Bible Author:Joseph Gaer and Ben Siegel Law, Government, Literature, Medicine, Education... — All these institutions, including the American settlement itself, grew from ideals rooted deeply in biblical ethics and morality. This fascinating study, based on extensive research among original seventeenth-century documents, points out that the first Pilgrims in the New World attempted to ... more »estblish a theocracy rather than a democracy. As the authors trace the growth of a nation -- its judiciary and educational systems, its literary and scientific traditions -- they show how explicitly and extensively the Judeo-Christian concepts affected, and still affect, the American culture and the American character.« less