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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
elity. In France, freedom of mind was introduced by philosophy, and, making its way, at one bound, to the absolute skepticism of pure reason, rejected every prejudice, and menaced the institutions of church and of state with an overthrow. In England, philosophy existed as an empirical science; men measured and weighed the outward world, and constructed the prevailing systems of morals and metaphysics on observation and the senses. In France, the philosophic mind, under the guidance of Descartes, of Fenelon, of Leibnitz,—who belongs to the French world,—of Malebranche, assumed a character alike spiritual and universal. Still more opposite were the governments. In Chap. XX.} France, feudal monarchy had been quelled by a military monarchy; in England, it had yielded to a parliamentary monarchy, in which government rested on property. France sustained the principle of legitimacy; England had selected its own sovereign, and to dispute his claims involved not only a question of n
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Q. (search)
Q. Quakerism, II. 326. A plebeian sect, 330. A universal religion, 336. Inner Light, 337. Its method that of Descartes, 338. Repels superstition, 340. Is primitive Christianity, 343. Agrees with Plato, 344. Its rule of conduct 344. No hireling ministry, 348. An absolute democracy, 352. Quakers persecuted in Massachusetts, I. 451. In North Carolina, II. 153. In Virginia, 201. In Maryland, 237. In New Jersey, 357. Their legislation, 359. In Pennsylvania, 389. Quebec founded, I. 28. Capitulates to the English, 334. A college and hospital built, III. 126. A New England fleet before it, 185. Threatened, 222.