Daily Log

Tuesday, September 21

We summarized what we learned yesterday about the Puritans' tendency to see the hand of God at work everywhere in men's affairs, and about their relations with the Indians. We discovered that the Puritans did in fact regard the plague which decimated the Indians as a gift from God to grant the Puritans their land. We examined the ambivalent feeling which European Americans have often had about Native Americans, and linked those feelings to changing feelings about nature. Mr. P read from an early 20th-century history text which displayed that ambiguity.