Volume 25, Number 2 · February 23, 1978
Three Temperaments
By Edmund S. Morgan
The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America
by Philip Greven
Knopf, 431 pp., $15.00
Half a century or so ago, when historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it they stuffed nearly everything except politics, on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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