John Fiske
Summary
Jean Nicollet
Nicollet explores Lake Michigan
Father Jogues near Lake Superior
Radisson and Groseilliers
Accession of Louis XIV
His changes in Canadian administration
Two expeditions against the Iroquois, J 666
Contrasts between New France and New England
The French trading route to the Northwest
The coureurs de bois
Father Allouez on the Wisconsin
The French take possession of the Northwest
Father Allouez depicts the greatness of Louis XIV
Early life of La Salle
La Salle comes to Canada
La Salle hears of the Ohio and resolves to explore it
His expedition combined with a mission exploration of the Sulpicians
The way blocked by the Senecas
Meeting with Joliet
La Salle parts from the Sulpicians
La Salle explores the Ohio
Frontenac succeeds Courcelles
Character of Frontenac
Joliet chosen to explore the Mississippi
Marquette
Joliet and Marquette reach the Mississippi
They pass the mouth of the Missouri
The return
La Salle's great designs
The Mississippi valley to be occupied
Difficulty of carrying out so vast a plan
La Salle's privileges arouse opposition
Fort Frontenac granted to La Salle
La Salle builds the Griffin
Henri de Tonty
Louis Hennepin
The voyage of the Griffin
La Salle's terrible winter journey
Fresh disasters
La Salle goes to rescue Tonty
Destruction of the Illinois village by the Iroquois
La Salle's winter voyage down the Mississippi
La Salle returns to France
Failure of the Mississippi expedition
La Salle's death
This ebook is the fourth chapter of New France and New England by John Fiske, published in 1902. He comes from The historical writings of John Fiske, in twelve volumes, here is at the beginning of Volume IX.
Note about cover: Photographed from seaplane near James Bay, QC, by Noémi Lambert in July 2009.
Mots clés : John Fiske, first chapter of New France and New England by John Fiske, published in 1902. He comes from The historical writings of John Fiske, in twelve volumes, here is the beginning of Volume IX. Chapter 4, Wilderness and Empire
Summary
Louis XIV commutes the sentence of death imposed upon alleged witches
The parliament of Normandy protests
The belief in witchcraft universal
Vitality of the belief
Cause of the final decay of the belief
Rise of physical science
An English witch trial before Sir Matthew Hale
Grotesque evidence
Indications of shamming ignored
Sir Matthew Hale affirms the reality of witchcraft
Revival of witchcraft superstition
The Hammer of Witches
King James on the reality of witchcraft
The delusion increases with the rise of the Puritan party to power
Last executions for witchcraft
Primitive America regarded as a domain of the Devil
The first victim of the witchcraft delusion in New England
The case of Mrs Hibbins
A victim of malice acting through superstition
A sensible jury
The Goodwin children
Cotton Mather
His character
His courage in advocating inoculation
Views of Calef and Upham
Mr. W. F. Poole
Cotton Mather and the Goodwin case
Cotton Mather and the Goodwin girl
Tests of bewitchment
Mather publishes an account of this case
Cotton Mather's book and the Salem troubles
Gloomy outlook in 1692
Salem village
Samuel Parris, the pastor
Parish troubles in Salem village
Mr. Parris' s coloured servants
The "afflicted children"
Mistress Ann Putnam
Beginnings of the troubles
Physicians and clergymen called in
The trial of Sarah Good
The accusation of Martha Corey and Rebecca
Character of Martha Corey
Rebecca Nurse
A village feud
The examination of Rebecca Nurse
Deodat Lawson
The spread of the delusion
Cases of personal malice
The Reverend George Burroughs
The special court erected
The advice of the ministers
Spectral evidence
The jury acquit Rebecca Nurse
The court sends them back
The case of Mary Easty
Mary Easty torn from her home at midnight
Doubt perilous
Peine forte et dure
The Reverend Mr. Noyes
The petition of Mary Easty
Her warning
Sudden collapse of the trials
Reaction follows the intense strain
The accusers aim too high
Accusers threatened with a suit for damages
The Court of Oyer and Terminer abolished
Cotton Mather
Explanation of Mather's speech
Judge Se wall's public acknowledgment of wrong
Ann Putnam's confession
Were the accusers misled or shamming?
Evidences of collusion
Was there a deliberate conspiracy?
Contagion of hysterical emotion
Psychology of hallucinations
Playing with fire
The evils of publicity in the examinations
Explanation of Mrs. Putnam's part
She exercised hypnotic control over the children
The case of Salem village helps one to realize the
terrors of the witchcraft delusion in the past
This ebook is the fifth chapter of New France and New England by John Fiske, published in 1902. He comes from The historical writings of John Fiske, in twelve volumes, here is at the middle of Volume IX
Summary
The reaction from the witchcraft delusion
Rise of secular opposition to the theocracy
The Halfway Covenant
The South Church
The opposition to the theocracy lays the foundation of Toryism
The new charter of Massachusetts
The Bratde Church founded 1698
Relaxation of conditions of membership
Cotton Mather's alarm
The theocracy helpless under the new charter
The new church finally recognized
The effort to get a new charter for Harvard
Governor Bellomont vetoes a test act for college officers
Rise of liberalism in the college
President Increase Mather displaced
Cotton Mather's indignation
Governor Dudley
The new charter for Harvard a substantial reenactment of that of 1650
Conditions in Connecticut
New Haven annexed to Connecticut
Comparison of Massachusetts and Connecticut
Causes of Connecticut conservatism
The tendency in organizations to become rigid and mechanical
The instance of the Cambridge Platform, 1648
Lack of a party of opposition in Connecticut
The Saybrook Platform
The platform tends to assimilate Congregationalism to Presbyterianism
Massachusetts and Connecticut change places
The founding of Yale College
The conservative tendencies of Connecticut reinforced by the college
State of religion early in the eighteenth century
Rise of commercial interests
"Stoddardeanism"
Jonathan Edwards
Edwards's vein of mysticism
His emphasis on conversion
Revivals
The Revival of 1734
George Whitefield invited to New England
Gilbert Tennent
James Davenport
Comparison with the Antinomians
Whitefield's return to New England
Davenport arrested for public disturbance
Last days of Edwards
Results of the Awakening
End’s note
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This ebook is the sixth chapter of New France and New England by John Fiske, published in 1902. He comes from The historical writings of John Fiske, in twelve volumes, here is at the middle of Volume IX.
After From Cartier to Champlain, The Beginnings of Quebec, The Lords of Acadia - Later history of Champlain and Wilderness and Empire, Witchcraft of Salem, and here The Great Awakening, enjoyed it.
