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Title: Boston, the place and the people
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960
Subjects: Boston -- History. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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llion against many accepted things, — royal author-ity, the national policy of 1812, the established religionof New England, and the constitutional order of sla-very. The rebels have never represented the wholecommunity, nor always those elements of it whichseemed surest to prevail. They are still to be seenand heard. The Sunday orators on Boston Commonvent their grievances against an unequal world, gathertheir audiences under the very windows of the clubsand dweUing-houses which symbolize the inequalities— and are in no wise let or hindered. Rebellingagainst the accepted relations between the spiritual andthe material in a world compacted of both, anotherelement of the community establishes and maintains inBoston the Mother Church of Christian Science.In quite another sphere of thought and condition theAnti-imperiaHsts, true descendants of the good BostonFederalists who opposed the Jeffersonian policy ofaggression and expansion, rebel against the prevailingtheories of government.
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THE MODERN INHERITANCE 387 There is, moreover, a constant rebellion in Bostonagainst the accepted American belief that life consistslargely in the abundance of possessions. The anxiousgetting and the lavish spending of money cannot beadded to the catalogue of local qualities. In spiteof the glittering exceptions which a few names bring tomind, there was truth at the bottom of the observationrecently made and published by an English NewYorker. On the whole, he said, I should sumup my impressions of Boston by saying that comparedwith the other leading American cities, she stands muchless in need of the reminder that the life is more thanmeat and the body than raiment. It may be addedtruly to these words that the things of the mind andspirit — books, pictures, music, practical religion, thelove of nature and the healthy sports which bringbody and spirit together — all these are characteristicinterests of the place. And they are characteristic justbecause they are so vitally interesti

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