Chapter IV: Part I: The Mind in the Making--1720-1763

I. Colonial Backgrounds

I. New Stock: Economic motive of immigration. The Scotch-Irish
influx; indented servants--the Germans; diary of John Harrower 133

II. The frontier--Lubberland: _Journal_ of Madam Knight--frontier
leveling, poverty. _History of the Dividing Line_, Col. William
Byrd--the backcountry, lubberland, impatient of law 137

III. The frontier--Land of Promise: _Letters_ of Crèvecœur: A
French Physiocrat; his travels in America; first interpretation
of the influence of the frontier in economic terms--_Ubi panis
ibi patria_; a new type; influence of the middle settlements,
the frontier. _More Letters_: Crèvecœur the Loyalist--dislike of
American Whiggery 140

II. The Anachronism of Jonathan Edwards

I. Backgrounds: Decay of Calvinism; beginnings of rationalism. A
free environment and the dogmas of total depravity and election.
The major question of determinism 148

II. Edwards a Puritan mystic. Sought to establish theology
in philosophy. Idealistic philosophy. Desire to magnify
God--interpreted in terms of will. Defended threatened dogmas. _On
the Freedom of the Will_--the triumph of the theologian. _Narrative
of the Surprizing Works of God_ and the psychology of conversion.
The Great Awakening. Father of later Congregationalism. The tragedy
of his position 152

III. Benjamin Franklin--Our First Ambassador--A Democrat in an
aristocratic world. A free soul; product of environment. Compared
with Defoe. His rise. Enters politics. Agent in England. Corruption
of English politics. A sociologist; our first economist. Economic
theories: _A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a
Paper Currency._ Labor the measure of value. Accepted Physiocratic
views: _laissez faire_, agrarianism. Distrust of industrialism.
_Principles of Trade._ Political views: imperial federation,
Whiggery. In the Constitutional Convention--a unicameral system. A
child of the eighteenth century 164