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In 1805 these cynical, neo-pagan, `` Tory '' families succeeded in placing their
representative in the Hollis chair of Philosophy at Harvard College. The Tories, parading
publicly as liberal religionists called Unitarians, were opposed by American nationalists
led by the geographer-historian Rev. Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826). The nationalists rallied
the Christian churches of the northeastern states behind a plan to establish, at Andover, a
new religious institution which would counter the British spies, atheists and criminals
who had taken over Harvard.
British Empire political operatives Stephen Higginson, Jr. and John Lowell, Jr. published
counterattacks against Rev. Morse, claiming he was trying to rouse the lower classes of
citizens to hatred against the wealthy merchant families. Then the Tories played the ``
conservative '' card. Ultra-orthodox Calvinists, actually business partners to the Harvard
liberals, threatened to set up their own religious institution in Tory-dominated
Newburyport. Their assertion, that Morse was not conservative enough, split the
resources of the region's Christians, until the Morse group reluctantly brought the
Newburyport ultras as partners into the management of the Andover Theological
Seminary in 1808.
The new theological seminary and the adjacent boys' academy were now governed
together under a common board of trustees (balanced between the Morse nationalists and
the Newburyport anti-nationalists, the opposing wings of the old Federalist Party).
Jedidiah Morse made Andover the headquarters of a rather heroic, anti-racist, Christian
missionary movement, bringing literacy, printing presses, medicine and technological
education to Southeast Asia and American Indians, notably the Georgia Cherokees. This
activist Andover doctrine of racial equality and American Revolutionary spirit was
despised and feared by British opium pushers in East Asia and by Boston's blue-blooded
Anglophiles. Andover missionaries were eventually jailed in Georgia; their too-modern
Cherokee allies were murdered and driven into exile by pro-slavery mobs.
When Jedidiah Morse's generation died out, the Andover missionary movement was
crushed by New England's elite families--who were then Britain's partners in the
booming opium traffic. Andover was still formally Christian after 1840; Boston's cynical
Brahmins used Andover's orthodox Protestant board to prosecute various of their
opponents as `` heretics. ''
Neo-paganism and occult movements bloomed after the Civil War with Darwin's new
materialist doctrines. In the 1870s the death-worshipping Skull and Bones Society sent its
alumni members back from Yale University, to organize aristocratic secret satanic
societies for the teenagers at the Andover prep school. But these cults did not yet quite
flourish. National power was still precariously balanced between the imperial Anglo-
American financiers, and the old-line nationalists who built America's railroads, steel and
electrical industries.
The New Age aristocrats proclaimed their victory under Theodore Roosevelt's presidency
(1901-09). The Andover Theological Seminary wound up its affairs and moved out of