[THE FOUNDING OF PENNSYLVANIA, pp. 135-206.]
Beginning of Colonization in America, [137].—Movements in Sweden, [138].—Swedish Proposals, [143].—Was Penn Aware of these Plans? [145].—The Swedes in Advance of Penn, [147].—The Men of those Times, [151].—Gustavus Adolphus, [152].—Axel Oxenstiern, [155].—Peter Minuit, [157].—William Penn, [159].—Estimate of Penn, [161].—Penn and the Indians, [162].—Penn's Work, [168].—The Greatness of Faith, [169].
[II. THE PRINCIPLES ENTHRONED.]
Man's Religious Nature, [173].—Our State the Product of Faith, [174].—Gustavus and the Swedes, [176].—The Feelings of William Penn, [178].—Recognition of the Divine Being, [180].—Enactments on the Subject, [183].—Importance of this Principle, [185].—Religious Liberty, [187].—Persecution for Opinion's Sake, [189].—Spirit of the Founders of Pennsylvania, [190].—Constitutional Provisions, [193].—Safeguards to True Liberty, [194].—Laws on Religion and Morals, [197].—Forms of Government, [200].—A Republican State, [202].—The Last Two Hundred Years, [203].
LUTHER AND THE REFORMATION.
A rare spectacle has been spreading itself before the face of heaven during these last months.
Millions of people, of many nations and languages, on both sides of the ocean, simultaneously engaged in celebrating the birth of a mere man, four hundred years after he was born, is an unwonted scene in our world.