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[ Steele's Life of Brewster, p. 161.]
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[ Gardiner, Puritan Revolution, p. 50.]
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[ It is now 204 years since a battle has been fought in England. The last was Sedgmoor in 1685. For four centuries, since Bosworth, in 1485, the English people have lived in peace in their own homes, except for the brief episode of the Great Rebellion, and Monmouth's slight affair. This long peace, unparalleled in history, has powerfully influenced the English and American character for good. Since the Middle Ages most English warfare has been warfare at a distance, and that does not nourish the brutal passions in the way that warfare at home does. An instructive result is to be seen in the mildness of temper which characterized the conduct of our stupendous Civil War. Nothing like it was ever seen before.]
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[ Picton's Cromwell, pp. 61, 67; Gardiner, Puritan Revolution, p. 72.]
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[ Quincy, History of Harvard University, ii. 654.]