...Massachusetts code of 1649 : " It being one chief project of that old deluder Sathan," says the preamble, "to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in the latter times, by persuading men from the use of the tongues,...

...boon of secular education. The preamble to the Massachusetts school law of 1642 tells the story : " It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan,...the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues,...

...boon of secular education. The preamble to the Massachusetts school law of 1642 tells the story: " It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan,...the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues,...

...boon of secular education. The preamble to the Massachusetts school law of 1642 tells the story : " It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan,...the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues,...

...commencing: " It being one chief project of y' ould deludor Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of y" Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in...tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from y" use of tongues, y1 so at least yc true sense and meaning of y° original! might be clouded by false...

...court, in establishing a free-school system in 1644, had done so on the express ground that it was " one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures ; " and the selectmen of the towns were cautioned, as a fundamental part of education, to see to it...

...not be out of place to quote some_ of the provisions of that act : " It being one chief project of Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times keeping them in unknown tongues, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues, that...

...furnish a sufficient foundation. The religious consciousness is uppermost: " It being one of thief point of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the scriptures." The schools are primarily for the clergy, that they may have ' the use of tongues," and so avoid the...

...that it was a likely route to earthly wealth as well. In 1647 the Massachusetts Bay Colony, aware that "it being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan,...to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures," provided for formal public schooling. "It is therefore ordered," the General Court agreed, "that every...

...the preamble of the Massachuseus act requiring towns to appoint schoolmasters, was overtly religinus: It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan,...by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these lauer times by persuading from the use of tongues, that so at least the true sense and meaning of the...