The Mind in the Making--1720-1763
I. Colonial Backgrounds
I. New Stock: Economic motive of immigration. The Scotch-Irish influx; indented servants--the Germans; diary of John Harrower 133
II. The frontier--Lubberland: _Journal_ of Madam Knight--frontier leveling, poverty. _History of the Dividing Line_, Col. William Byrd--the backcountry, lubberland, impatient of law 137
III. The frontier--Land of Promise: _Letters_ of Crèvecœur: A French Physiocrat; his travels in America; first interpretation of the influence of the frontier in economic terms--_Ubi panis ibi patria_; a new type; influence of the middle settlements, the frontier. _More Letters_: Crèvecœur the Loyalist--dislike of American Whiggery 140
II. The Anachronism of Jonathan Edwards
I. Backgrounds: Decay of Calvinism; beginnings of rationalism. A free environment and the dogmas of total depravity and election. The major question of determinism 148
II. Edwards a Puritan mystic. Sought to establish theology in philosophy. Idealistic philosophy. Desire to magnify God--interpreted in terms of will. Defended threatened dogmas. _On the Freedom of the Will_--the triumph of the theologian. _Narrative of the Surprizing Works of God_ and the psychology of conversion. The Great Awakening. Father of later Congregationalism. The tragedy of his position 152
III. Benjamin Franklin--Our First Ambassador--A Democrat in an aristocratic world. A free soul; product of environment. Compared with Defoe. His rise. Enters politics. Agent in England. Corruption of English politics. A sociologist; our first economist. Economic theories: _A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency._ Labor the measure of value. Accepted Physiocratic views: _laissez faire_, agrarianism. Distrust of industrialism. _Principles of Trade._ Political views: imperial federation, Whiggery. In the Constitutional Convention--a unicameral system. A child of the eighteenth century 164