supreme ruling power. The book is as abstruse to the average reader as a treatise on the higher mathematics. It has furnished a field for much argument from the time of its first appearance until the present. Some of the profoundest metaphysicians of the century have assailed it, but it seems to be impregnable.
In curious contrast with this ponderous work stands the little volume A Treatise on the Religious Affections, full of sweetness and rapt spiritual character, and often very near to poetry in its lofty conceptions and gentle spirit.
Required Reading. — Selections from Holmes' "Jonathan Edwards," in Pages from an Old Volume of Life.
4. Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780).
"For intellectual gifts and accomplishments, he stood far above all the other Colonial governors." — John Fiske.
Life. (No life of Governor Hutchinson has ever been written. The best source of information concerning him is his Diary and Letters, first published in 1884–1886. See also Hosmer'sHistory of Massachusetts Bay. (1620–1774)
Diary and Letters Samuel Adams.)
All of the Colonial governors of Massachusetts seem to have been impressed with the idea that they must give to posterity a faithful record of all their doings. Thomas Hutchinson, the last of the governors under British rule, conceived the idea. of writing a complete history of the province from the time of the first settlement until the Revolutionary
