Miller HenryABAA
Miller PerryABAA
Errand into the Wilderness
19642310207New York: Harper Torchbooks 1964. Trade Paperback. Good. Wrappers rubbed ink name and ink underlining. 1964 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. x 244 12 pp. The 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. 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 These questions are by no means frivolous. They go to the roots of seventeenth-century thought and of the ever-widening and quickening flow of events since then. 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. Mr. 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. Harper Torchbooks paperback books
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