ABSTRACT

Once upon a time there lived some pious souls. They desired only the freedom to follow their conscience. They were industrious, yet thrifty; prosperous, yet humble. Persecution made them abandon their English homeland. They sailed the stormy Atlantic in quest of the sacred birthright of all mankind: democracy. Yet the English tyrant still blighted them in America, as he had done in England. So they mustered a ragtag army, whose sparse but brave men at first seemed no match for the vast empire. Clever and agile, and with right on their side, they nevertheless threw off the English despot. They founded a new nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.