 “protected” inside the palisades. “Religion” was putting its faith in guns and foolhardy tactics at the same time. Endicott took his wrath into the Pequot “Long Water Land.”
Profit, Advantage, and Progress grew more entwined. How many people should Profit Dis-advantage, to achieve how much human Progress? In his appeals for Council support against rival "irregular" traders, Bradford offered to stop "the unprofitable consuming of the victuals of the land" by "these salvages" (Letters 56).
Within a few years, Massachusetts Bay built its first ship --- the Desire --- for the African and Caribbean slave trade. Ten years after the May Day Revels, Boston and Hartford (CT), with Plimoth manpower in the wings, set out to destroy the next people in England’s way, The Pequots. You can take their documented journey and find out why they failed in Mystic Fiasco: How the Indians Won The Pequot War. Yet, that was the war that hard-wired the American colonial psyche through today.
Plimoth and Boston made a good lawyer angry in 1630. Thus began Morton’s second exile, and the “Late” years of his long life --- See Time Line 4.
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According to David Petegorsky’s Left Wing Democracy in the English Civil War, for thinking people in the Renaissance “The conception of a personal God or Devil, of an actual Heaven and Hell, were the psychological result of the inability to understand the nature of the physical world: the refuge of those who felt impelled to substitute fancy and imagination for the knowledge they were unable to achieve.”
Morton prized reason as “the light of nature,” as did Gerard Winstanley, a leader of “displaced” people in England (and no university man): it was “a doctrine of a sickly and weak spirit who hath lost his understanding of the Creation, and of the temper of his own heart, and Nature --- and so runs into fancies” (Winstanley qtd. 179). Diggers, Ranters, Quakers and more defied the “new economy” of profit and war. Close to Charles’ court that he was, Morton had a history of liking “ale house intellectuals,” such as Ben Jonson.
Exiled for 15 years, Morton was going win his lawsuit, and come back to “the land he loveth.” Meanwhile (1637) he published New English Canaan --- the work of a “pastoral realist” who saw the Garden in America, and refused to be silent while idiotic “Martialists” took over.
New English Canaan Book III, Chapter 12
This worthy member Master Bubble, having a conceit in his head that he had hatched a new scheme for the purchase of beaver, beyond Imagination, packs up a sack full of odd implements. And, without any company but a couple of Indians for guides---and therefore you may, if you please, believe they are so dangerous as the Brethren of Plimoth give it out---he betakes him to his progress into the inland for beaver, with his carriage on his shoulders like Milo.
His guides and he, in process of time, come to the place appointed, which was about Neepenett [or, Nipmuc, today’s Worcester, Mass. area]; thereabouts being more beaver to be had than this Milo could carry. And, both his journeymen glad that he was “good man,” his guides willing to pleasure him, there he and the Salvages stay.
Night came on. But, before they were inclined to sleep, this good man Master Bubble had a fantasy creep into his head---by misunderstanding the Salvages’ actions. He must needs be gone in all haste, yea and without his errand. He purposed to do it so cunningly that his flight should not be suspected: he leaves his shoes in the house with all his other implements, and flies.
As he was on his way, he increased his fear, suggesting to himself that he was pursued by a company of Indians, and that their arrows were let fly as thick as hail at him. He puts off his breeches, and puts them on his head, for to save him from the shafts that flew after him so thick that no man could perceive them.
And crying out, “Avoid, Satan! What have ye to do with me?” and thus running on his way without