![]() #ERRAND INTO THE WILDERNESS TAKAKI SERIES#In this integrated series of brilliant and witty essays which he describes as “pieces,” Perry Miller invites and stimulates in the reader a new conception of his own inheritance. In this book, as in all his work, the author of The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century The New England Mind: From Colony to Province and The Transcendentalists, emphasizes the need for understanding the human sources from which the American mainstream has risen. Thus left alone with America, who were they? And what were they to do? The huge book presents the holy Puritan errand into the wilderness to establish God’s kingdom its structure is a narrative progression of representative American Saints’ Lives. For the second generation in America discovered that their heroic parents had, in fact, been sent on a fool’s errand, the bitterest kind of all that the dream of a model society to be built in purity by the elect in the new continent was now a dream that meant nothing more to Europe. Miller’s engrossing account of what happened to the European mind when, in spite of itself, it began to become something other than European. This crucial uncertainty of the age is the starting point of Mr. But the original speaker’s underlying concern was with the fateful ambiguity in the word errand. Like so many jeremiads of its time, this sermon appeared to be addressed to the sinful and unregenerate whom God was about to destroy. The title, Errand into the Wilderness, is taken from the title of a Massachusetts election sermon of 1670. Miller makes this abundantly clear and real, and in doing so allows the reader to conclude that, whatever else America might have become, it could never have developed into a society that took itself for granted. The Puritans arrived with an errand into the wilderness that consisted in transforming the wilderness into civilization, which ended up costing the lives of innocent Indian tribes. they now need to be incorporated, can compare it to agrarian myth (individual going out to the periphery of settlement, cultivating land, creating a stake in society through Lockean labor. plays out differently in terms of different racial groups. Disguised from twentieth-century readers first by the New Testament language and thought of the Puritans and later by the complacent transcendentalist belief in the oversoul, the related problems of purpose and reason-for-being have been central to the American experience from the very beginning. Errand in wilderness: territorial control already established, but developing resources (mineral, agricultural) is key to further progress in west and developing healthy vibrant powerful economy. They go to the roots of seventeenth-century thought and of the ever-widening and quickening flow of events since then. These questions are by no means frivolous. Miller’s lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? As men and women undertaking a mission that was its own cause and justification? Or did they consider themselves errand boys for a higher power which might, as is frequently the habit of authority, change its mind about the importance of their job before they had completed it? Urn:oclc:674862502 Republisher_date 20170107180042 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 541 Scandate 20170107094554 Scanner title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Urn:lcp:errandintowilder00mill_1:lcpdf:fe48d265-1fa2-4b7f-a7cd-31dd531e3511 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier errandintowilder00mill_1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1ng8nx2r Invoice 1315 Isbn 9780674261556Ġ674261550 Lccn 56011285 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL15104000M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:33:15.555085 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1112401 Boxid_2 CH1147704 City Cambridge, MA Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 12. ![]()
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