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5)
Samuel Sewall
, New England's greatest colonial diarist;
6)
Cotton Mather
, the most famous clerical writer, whose
Magnalia
is a compound of early colonial
history and biography, sometimes written in a fantastic style;
7)
Jonathan Edwards
, America's greatest metaphysician and theologian, who maintained that the action
of the human will is determined by the strongest motive, that the substance of this universe is nothing but the
divine Idea, communicated to human consciousness, and who could invest spiritual truth with the beauty of
the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the valleys.
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