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their faith, and who sought freedom of conscience and
peace on a new free soil. I see the Huguenot and the
Herrnhuter in the South; and along the Mississippi
in the West, Protestants and Catholics from all the
countries of Europe seeking and finding there the
most precious treasures of mankind, and who, in that
affluent soil, establish flourishing communities
under the social and free laws instituted by the
oldest Pilgrims.
When I contemplate that Puritan community as it
exists in our time, about two centuries after its
first establishment, it seems to me that there are
two mainsprings within its motive heart-machinery;
the one is a tendency toward the ideal of moral
life, the other impels it to conquer the earth–that
is to say, the material powers and products of the
earth. The men of the New World, and pre-eminently
the men of New England (humorously called Yankees)
have a passion for acquisition, and for this object
think nothing of labor, even the hardest, and nothing
of trouble; nay, to travel half the world over to do
a good stroke of business is but a trifle. The viking
element in the Yankee’s nature, which he perhaps
inherited originally from the Scandinavian vikings,
compels him to work incessantly, to undertake, to
accomplish something which tends either to his own
improvement or that of others; for
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