The Puritan Character of New England

Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand. It might be that a sluggish bond-servant or an undutiful child whom his parents had given over to the civil authority was to be corrected at the whipping post. The age had not so much refinement that any sense of impropriety restrained the wearers of pedicote and farthing ale from stepping forth into the public ways. In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanor on the part of the spectators, as befitted a

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