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He lobbies against practices that were common in the seventeenth century and instead claims that people should focus on performing more traditional tasks that would make it possible for them to be equal and for discrimination based on intellect or wealth to be removed from the English society. From his perspective, much needs to be changed in order for people to live in agreement with how God wants them to live. The writer is determined to have people comprehend the importance of equality in a society that is experiencing great suffering. He cannot accept people's interest in material matters and advises against all forms of discrimination, regardless of society's standards.
Winstanley can virtually be considered to be an opportunist when it comes to the way that he applies religion to a political matter. He knows that people in England are severely influenced by religious passion and that it can be used as a means to makes them see the general situation from a religious point-of-view. The masses are no longer oppressed people wanting to go against their oppressors, as they are actually God's people sent on a mission to improve conditions on earth....
Winstanley wanted people to force wealthy individuals to abandon their values in order to join others in raising crops with the purpose of earning their resources using their own strength. The Gospel of John supports Winstanley because of the way that it portrays Jesus, considering that He is shown as being the only one who can be held responsible for deciding people's fates. Winstanley's interest in associating rich people in England with immoral values was meant to have the masses acknowledge their role in the overall state of affairs. He had ordinary people feel that it was their responsibility to make change happen, even if they risked greatly by rising against their leaders. Similarly, he most probably hoped to get wealthy individuals to change their opinion regarding the importance of material values and join the masses in creating an environment where all people would be equal.
One of the principal concepts that Winstanley wants to put across in "A New Israel" relates to reform. He intended his perspective to influence people in abandoning their prejudice in order to embrace a new point-of-view regarding life. Similar to John, he wanted individuals to accept that their actual purpose is to create a world that would provide everyone with equal opportunities. His use of moral values and religion is meant to contribute to the general idea that he wants to express through turning to people's religious character.
Winthrop's "City upon a Hill" John Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" impacted not only the Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers but also the history of America by laying a Calvinist foundation of thought for future geopolitical movements. Winthrop's motivational sermon highlighted the specialness of the new American settlers, challenging them to be the model of Christian charity for the rest of the world -- yet Winthrop's interpretation of charity was different
John Winthrop and Ralph W. Emerson Utopia refers to a visualized state or place of welfare, which is comprised of goodness and freedom from all threats of negative conditions and probable failures. Following this description of 'utopia', a Utopian World thus, may refer to a universe that is free from all physical, economic and social constraints that bring disunity, poverty, hunger and all sources of unhappiness in the society. Though different
American thinkers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Winthrop developed cogent visions of their new nation, promulgating utopian ideals and encouraging their readers to actively create an idealized society. As Peyser puts it, both Emerson and Winthrop were "deeply suffused with a sense of America's missionary destiny, of the new nation's emancipatory message to the rest of the world," (13). However, Winthrop and Emerson held two divergent visions of
Whilst I talk, some poor farmer drudges & slaves for me" (Journals 9: 126). He feels that a real reformer is the one who would refuse to purchase or use slave-produced goods and in this regard he noted: "Alas! alas! my brothers, there is never an abolitionist in New England" (Journals 9:128). Thus reform though it has been an important subject has often elicited different responses from thinkers and writers.
There are many examples in the literature of the intention and purpose of the early colonists to eradicate the Indian population. The genocidal intentions against the indigenous population of America do not however begin with the English colonists, but starts with Columbus. The following quotation refers to his second voyage to the New World. Columbus took the title "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" and proceeded to unleash a reign of
Boston in the 1600 and 1700's Because of the eventual outcome of becoming a great American city, Colonial Boston has been written about from a thousand different angles with a thousand yet to come. This report is not intended to expose any newly discovered fact or thing, but it will provide an insight into the life and times of some of those early Americans but white and red. The objective is to