ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the Adamic threads through the writings of five focus authors, namely John Eliot, Roger Williams, Gerrard Winstanley, John Milton and John Locke. In their writings about, and dealings with, the American Indians, Roger Williams and John Eliot give the figure of Adam a universal and universalising significance. Winstanley's different emphases have different implications for his politics. His tellings of the story of the first and second Adam deal with individual, universal and cosmic expectation and transformation, with the collapsing of the story into its final resolution and the absolutes of peace, equality, liberty and of political anarchy. While, relative to the other authors, Locke gives Adam a reduced significance in his scheme, his political writing is still embedded within that seventeenth-century tradition of Adamic interpretation.
