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H2NOTESment to our understanding--evident in an immense body of data~£ the brutal andracist ways in which the Europeans, including the British, viewed and treatedthe Indians.98. Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure, Enlarged Edition(New York: Free Press, 1968), pp. 474, 477.99. Cotton Mather, quoted in John Canup, Out of the Wilderness: TheEmergence of an American Identity in New England (Middletown, Conn.: WesleyanUniversity Press, 1990), p. 79.100. Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of theAmerican Frontier (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973), p. 132.101. Quoted in Philip Greven, The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child­Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America (New York: AlfredA. Knopf, 1977), p. 68.102. Frederick Crews, The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's PsychologicalThemes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), p. 19. This insightful work,originally published in 1966, must be read in this most recent edition as it containsan important Afterword by the author addressing the excesses of its psychoanalyticapproach. Greven, Protestant Temperament, pp. 110, 121. Emphasis added. Grevensubsequently has pursued these themes across the Protestant American historicalexperience, up to and including the present. See Philip Greven, Spare the Child:The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), esp. pp. 60-72.103. Davis, Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, p. 337.104. Benjamin Wadsworth, "The Nature of Early Piety as it Respects God,"in A Course of Sermons on Early Piety (Boston, 1721), p. 10.105. On the fear of contamination, see Canup, Out of the Wilderness, pp.155-56, 169-72. See also, Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence, pp. 116-45.On aversive attitudes of the British colonists toward Indian-European sexual encounters,including the examples cited, see Michael Zuckerman, "Identity in BritishAmerica: Unease in Eden," in Canny and Pagden, eds., Colonial Identity in theAtlantic World, esp. pp. 145-47.106. R.H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (New York: NewAmerican Library, 1954), pp. 35, 125-26.107. Hanke, Aristotle and the American Indians, p. 47; Thomas, Man and theNatural World, p. 31.108. The quotation from More's Utopia is also cited in Wilcomb E. Washburn,"The Moral and Legal Justifications for Dispossessing the Indians," in JamesMorton Smith, ed., Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History (NewYork: W.W. Norton & Company, 1972), p. 24; Luther is quoted in RichardSchlatter, Private Property: The History of an Idea (New York: Russell & Russell,1973), p. 88.109. Schlatter, Private Property, p. 89.110. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1960), section 32.111. C.B. Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbesto Locke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962), pp. 261-62.112. Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery-American Freedom: The Ordealof Colonial Virginia (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1975), p. 381.