In 1655, John Cotton, a Puritan minister in the Massachusetts Bay colony, maintained that “to allow any man uncontrollableness of speech” results, inevitably, in “great blasphemies” and the destruction of civil peace.
By Glenn C. Altschuler, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Books
Sun, 07/08/2018 - 4:00am
In 1655, John Cotton, a Puritan minister in the Massachusetts Bay colony, maintained that “to allow any man uncontrollableness of speech” results, inevitably, in “great blasphemies” and the destruction of civil peace.