CHAPTEE XI 



HUGUENOT INFLUENCE UPON PUEITAN 

 CHAEACTER 



Speedy Differ- 

 entiation 



Whence the 

 Change 



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E are led constantly to wonder at the radical 

 diiference between the men and women of Eng- 

 land and of New England. Of the same race, 

 the same stock, they are yet so unlike as to occasion in- 

 vestigation into the causes of such wide divergence. No 

 sooner were the Pilgrims and Pui"itaus established on this 

 side the sea than they began to differentiate from their 

 forebears on the other side. And the peculiarities which 

 distinguish the New Euglanders are not merely in dress, 

 accent, speech or customs, they extend to face and figure, 

 physique and manner. Where the Englishman is phleg- 

 matic, the New Euglander is alert and wiry ; where the 

 former is burly, the latter is slight and quick by compar- 

 ison. Perhaps nowhere does the difference stand out 

 more conspicuously than in the treatment of women by 

 the men — a treatment that has made the American hus- 

 band and father a standard of excellence and genuine 

 chivalry. 



This wide-reaching change which came over the trans- 

 planted Puritans is of great interest to the student of 

 race development and of the influence of mixed bloods. 

 Whence came the greater flexibility of the Yankee intel- 

 lect, the lai^ger spirit of liberality, that great hospitality 

 towards men and ideas? What produced the livelier 

 and more cheerful temperament, and that darker and 

 warmer physical colouring, so that the ruddy-cheeked, 

 blue-eyed Saxon type became rarer among the New Eug- 



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