"Sequel to The New England mind: the seventeenth century."

"Bibliographical notes": p. [487]-498.

The wrath of Jehovah -- The jeremiad -- The Protestant ethic -- The expanding limits of natural ability -- Hypocracy -- Children of the covenant -- Half-way measures -- Revivalism -- Intolerance -- Propaganda -- Profile of a provincial mentality -- Salvaging the covenant -- The judgment of the witches -- The dilemma of the sacraments -- Contention -- The failure of centralization -- The unresolved debate -- The poison of Wise's cursed libel -- A medium of trade -- Antiministerial sentiment -- The judgment of the smallpox -- A secular state -- A tender plant -- Do-good -- Reason -- The experimental philosophy -- The death of an idea -- Polity as a form of patriotism.