Excerpt from The Social and Intellectual State of the Colony of Pennsylvania Prior to the Year 1743 In this point of view, the subject rises to an elevation sufficient to engage upon its study the best powers of the mind. It is for this reason I go back to the early settlement of the province, in order to determine the mind and sympathies which predominated in 1743. It is there we must seek the elements of the future, - the seeds which afterwards flourished to maturity, - the foundations of the structure which we at present see. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.