Inhaltsangabe
Excerpt from The Mayflower Compact
HE incident in Pilgrim history often selected as best representing the idea of civil liberty and local self-government is the Signing of the Compact.
The poet and the artist are more successful than are the historians in preserving and symbolizing some of the great events of human history. The canvas of Sargent portrays and the verses of Mrs. Hemans describe their ideas of the Landing at Plymouth rather than What in fact happened on the Plymouth shore on the 21st of December, 1620. But the picture and the poem have impressed themselves upon the popular imagination and best describe the idea of the Landing Which is held apparently by the great majority of English-speaking people who have occasion to consider that event.
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