Anthropology

of separating cultivation from wild habitats. There were no stone walls, no wooden fences. Besides, they weren't Christians, which made them savages and subhuman. I'm always astonished by how blockheaded their religious and cultural arrogance made them, and how few exceptions there were.

Thomas Morton was one, a fast money guy who came over with the Puritans, befriended the Wampanoag people, left the colony in disgust and wrote a scathing book about the Puritans---which they promptly banned. He's one of my heroes.

Most of them were ignorant and pigheaded and set about trying to transform North America into another Europe. It's why half the colonists died during their first year in Massachusetts.