[26] The case of Maryland is peculiar. But the reason for the toleration there seems to have been due to the desire to give Catholics a measure of freedom they could not have elsewhere in Protestant countries.
[27] For a good sketch of the Puritan Sunday in New England see The Sabbath in Puritan New England, by Alice Morse Earle. For an account of religious intolerance see the account of the Blue Laws of Connecticut as contained in Hart's American History told by Contemporaries, Vol. I.
Transcriber's Note:
Minor punctuation errors and letters printed upside down have been corrected without note. Inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. common-place vs. commonplace) has been retained. Variant and unusual spellings used consistently (e.g. indispensible) have also been kept.
The following corrections and changes were made to the text:
[p. 65]: knowlelge to knowledge (accumulation of knowledge)
[p. 98]: upder to under (under the old Greek)
[p. 102]: extra "to" removed (owe their belief to the philosophical)
[p. 114]: sterotyped to stereotyped (stereotyped phraseology)
[p. 132]: developes to develops (organ or an organism develops)