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| Early works before the Revolutionary War focuses on discovery of Americas |
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| Puritanism and government was based on religion |
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| Bible was provided model for writing, viewed life as journey to salvation, looked for direct connections between biblical events and events in their real life |
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| diaries and histories were most common forms of expression where writers described the workings of God, favored a plain style of writing, avoided complicated figures of speech |
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| All people can be good, wrote about government, religion, and the new land |
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| Used reason to find truth, God created the world and stepped back, world operates according to God's rules, humans are good and perfectible, progress towards a perfect existence |
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