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The Germans and Scandinavians who settled in western Greater New England reinforced the secular puritan ethos, although they were more likely to be socialists than the Yankees, whose fear of corruption has often made them enemies of big government.
As the eminent Puritan theologian William Ames wrote in Conscience and the Cases Thereof , "[H]e whose offence is hidden has ...
As for the “daring’ aspect, had the child been named Virginia in a Puritan community, it would certainly have been very provocative.
Even so, the Protestant pietism of many Germanic Americans meshed neatly with the Puritan religious culture of New Englanders and their western cousins, while socialist enthusiasms were easily merged with Social Gospel Protestantism in the northern-tier states.
Like Conant, Chauncey was a member of the Protestant Establishment, a graduate of Groton and Harvard, a man from Puritan stock.