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Land in the American Religous Experience
This article talks about a significant development in how the Puritans saw the new world in which they landed. Confronted by the wilds of the world, it is thought that by gods ordanment they felt driven to tame it to show their loyalty to god. To turn this wild place into vaste feilds for crops and have the chance at survival, it is explaiined that they had been turning the land "for god's purposes" by making fire wood and farm land.While nothing spectacular i found this rather interesting as a way of justifing all the hardships endured bye these early peoples. I find it facinating but then I am a history major. :)
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