CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XII. 



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Boston, Popular Education, continued. Patronage of Universities and 

 Science. Channing on Milton. Milton s Scheme of teaching the 

 Natural Sciences. New England Free Schools. Their Origin. First 

 Puritan Settlers not illiterate. Sincerity of their Religious Faith. 

 Schools founded in Seventeenth Century in Massachusetts. Discour 

 aged in Virginia. Sir W. Berkeley s Letter. Pastor Robinson s Views 

 of Progress in Religion. Organization of Congregational Church 

 es. No Penalties for Dissent. Provision made for future Variations 

 in Creeds. Mode of working exemplified. Impossibility of conceal 

 ing Truths relating to Religion from an educated Population. Gain 

 to the Higher Classes, especially the Clergy. New Theological Col- 



. lege. The Lower Orders not rendered indolent, discontented, or ir 

 religious by Education. Peculiar Stimulus to Popular Instruction in 

 the United States 155 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Leaving Boston for the South. Railway Stove. Fall of Snow. New- 

 Haven, and Visit to Professor Silliman. New York. Improvements 

 in the City. Croton Waterworks. Fountains. Recent Conflagra 

 tion. New Churches. Trinity Church. News from Europe of Con 

 verts to Rome. Reaction against Tractarians. Electric Telegraph, 

 its Progres in America. Morse and Wheatstone. 11,000 Schools in 

 New York for Secular instruction. Absence of Smoke. Irish Voters. 

 Nativism 178 



CHAPTER XIV. 



New York to Philadelphia. Scenery in New Jersey. War about Ore 

 gon. Protectionist Theories. Income Tax and Repudiation. Re 

 criminations against British Aggrandizement. Irish Quarter and 

 fraudulent Votes. Washington. Congress and Annexation of Texas. 

 General Cass for War. Winthrop for Arbitration. Inflated Elo 

 quence. Supreme Court. Slavery in District of Columbia. 

 Museum, Collection of Corals. Sculpture from Palenque. Conversa 

 tions with Mr. Fox. A Residence at Washington not favorable to a 

 just Estimate of the United States. False Position of Foreign Diplo 

 matists . 191 



