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The Years of Authority
Pleasant View, Varying Views | page 10

●   ●   ●    rear lawn, the mistress of Pleasant View showed that her roots were in the soil of New England Puritanism. A simple thank-you for a non-utilitarian gift took the characteristic form of an article entitled “Pond and Purpose” 4 which, after a few initial pleasantries, developed into a strongly felt disquisition on the metaphysical significance of baptism.