Conceived in Liberty Volume 2 - Ludwig von Mises Institute
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known to historians. The def<strong>in</strong>itive edition of Locke's "Second Essay on Civil<br />
Government" is to be found <strong>in</strong> John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed.<br />
Peter Laslett (I960). Locke's devotion to private-property rights and the free<br />
market is demonstrated <strong>in</strong> C. B. Macpherson, The Theory of Possessive Individualism<br />
(1962). The <strong>in</strong>fluence of the theory of natural law <strong>in</strong> America is discussed<br />
<strong>in</strong> Benjam<strong>in</strong> F. Wright, American Interpretations of Natural Law (1931). For<br />
a rather more cautious view than Bailyn's, see Lawrence Leder, <strong>Liberty</strong> and<br />
Authority: Early American Political Ideology, 1689-1163 (1968). The only<br />
work on deism <strong>in</strong> America <strong>in</strong> this period is Herbert M. Morais, Deism <strong>in</strong><br />
Eighteenth Century America (1934). A detailed work on the Enlightenment<br />
background <strong>in</strong> Europe is Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation (2<br />
vols., 1966, 1969). The <strong>in</strong>fluence of French ideas <strong>in</strong> America is traced <strong>in</strong> Howard<br />
Mumford Jones, America and French Culture, 1150-1848 (1927).<br />
William W. Sweet's Religion <strong>in</strong> Colonial America (1942) is a good overall<br />
survey of the topic. The classic study of the Quakers <strong>in</strong> this period is Rufus M.<br />
Jones, The Quakers <strong>in</strong> the American Colonies (1911); Sydney V. James, A<br />
People Among Peoples (1963), is a good modern supplement. The saga of<br />
Quaker abolition of slavery is set forth <strong>in</strong> Thomas E. Drake's Quakers and Slavery<br />
<strong>in</strong> America (1950). Also see Arthur Zilversmit, The First Emancipation: The<br />
Abolition of Slavery <strong>in</strong> the North (1967). The famous Journal of the famed<br />
John Woolman, the leader of Quaker abolitionism, is available <strong>in</strong> paperback:<br />
The Journal of John Woolman (1961).<br />
The renowned liberal Congregational cleric Jonathan Mayhew has at last found<br />
his biographer: Charles W. Akers, Called unto <strong>Liberty</strong>: A Life of Jonathan<br />
Mayhew, 1120-1166 (1964). Mayhew is also discussed <strong>in</strong> Max Savelle's Seeds of<br />
<strong>Liberty</strong>: The Genesis of the American M<strong>in</strong>d (1948). The rise of liberal Arm<strong>in</strong>ianism<br />
and Unitarianism <strong>in</strong> New England is treated <strong>in</strong> Conrad Wright, The<br />
Beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>gs of Unitarianism <strong>in</strong> America (1955).<br />
There is still no overall history of the Great Awaken<strong>in</strong>g. Best is C. C. Goen,<br />
Revivalism and Separatism <strong>in</strong> New England, 1140-1800 (1962 ); also important<br />
is Edw<strong>in</strong> Scott Gaustad, The Great Awaken<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> New England (1957). Alan<br />
Heimert's Religion and the American M<strong>in</strong>d: From the Great Awaken<strong>in</strong>g to the<br />
Revolution (1966) is a pro-Puritan overview; documents of the Great Awaken<strong>in</strong>g<br />
may be found <strong>in</strong> A. Heimert and P. Miller, eds., The Great Awaken<strong>in</strong>g:<br />
Documents (1967). Jonathan Edwards, the fanatical theoretician of the Great<br />
Awaken<strong>in</strong>g, has several biographers; a sympathetic emphasis on his ideas is<br />
Perry Miller, Jonathan Edwards (1949).<br />
There are two <strong>in</strong>dispensable books on the struggle of Americans aga<strong>in</strong>st the<br />
threat of an Anglican bishop <strong>in</strong> the colonies: the classic by Arthur Lyon Cross,<br />
The Anglican Episcopate and the American Colonies (1902); and the newer<br />
Carl Bridenbaugh, Mitre and Sceptre: Transatlantic Faiths, Ideas, Personalities,<br />
and Politics, 1689-111`S (1962).<br />
The classic work on freedom of the press <strong>in</strong> colonial Massachusetts is Clyde A.<br />
Duniway, Development of Freedom of the Press <strong>in</strong> Massachusetts (1906). On the<br />
Zenger case, see the study by V<strong>in</strong>cent Buranelli, The Trial of Peter Zenger (1957),<br />
and the documentary source by Zenger's lawyer, James Alexander, A Brief Narrative<br />
of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger, ed. S. Katz (2d ed., 1972).<br />
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