Puritanism and the Scarlet Letter

Boston has gone down in the annals of puritanism as the bloody town. Half naked woman with a baby in her arms was publicly whipped for the crime of free speech. Puritanism no longer employs the thumbscrew and lash, but it still has a most pernicious hold on the minds and feelings of the american people. Naught else can explain the power of a comstock like the torquemadas of anti bellum days. Anthony comstock is the autocrat of a merican morals. He dictates the standards of good and evil, of purity and vice. Like a thief in the night, he sneaks into the private lives of the people into their