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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Americanism in literature. (search)
this respect worse than English toryism,--that it does not even retain a hearty faith in the past. It is better that a man should have eyes in the back of his head than that he should be taught to sneer at even a retrospective vision. One may believe that the golden age is behind us or before us, but alas for the forlorn wisdom of him who rejects it altogether! It is not the climax of culture that a college graduate should emulate the obituary praise bestowed by Cotton Mather on the Rev. John Mitchell of Cambridge, a truly aged young man. Better a thousand times train a boy on Scott's novels or the Border Ballads than educate him to believe, on the one side, that chivalry was a cheat and the troubadours imbeciles, and on the other hand, that universal suffrage is an absurdity and the one real need is to get rid of our voters. A great crisis like a civil war brings men temporarily to their senses, and the young resume the attitude natural to their years, in spite of their teacher
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Puritan minister. (search)
Calvin before he went to sleep. A fearful rate of labor; a strange, grave, quaint, ascetic, rigorous life. It seems a mystery how the Reverend Joshua Moody could have survived to write four thousand sermons, but it is no mystery why the Reverend John Mitchell was called a truly aged young man at thirty, -especially when we consider that he was successor at Cambridge to the holy, heavenly, sweet-affecting, and soul-ravishing Mr. Shepard, in continuance of whose labors he kept a monthly lecturlie calls her, whom his parish thought by no means a model for her sex, but from whom it finally took three days of solitary fasting and prayer to wean him. He was not the only Puritan minister who bestowed his heart somewhat strangely. Rev. John Mitchell, who succeeded the soul-ravishing Shepard at Cambridge, as aforesaid, married his predecessor's widow on the general recommendation of her, and the college students were greatly delighted, as one might imagine. Rev. Michael Wigglesworth, i