# Notes on witchcraft

Author: Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70895

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## Summary

We are all specialists now-a-days, I suppose. The good old times of the polymath and the Doctor Universalis are gone forever. Yet signs are not wanting that some of us are alive to the danger of building our party-walls too high. In one respect, at all events, there can be no doubt that the investigators of New England antiquities are aware of their peril, though they occasionally shut their eyes to it,--I mean, the tendency to consider the Colonists as a peculiar people, separated from the Mother Country not only geographically, but also with regard to those currents of thought and feeling which are the most significant facts of history. True, there is more or less justification for that...

## Chapters

- [VOLUME XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-on-witchcraft-70895/chapters/1/index.md)
- [xvii. See also the criticism of Hale in a letter of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-on-witchcraft-70895/chapters/2/index.md)
- [canto 3, 11. 139 ff.) is disproved by the following passage](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-on-witchcraft-70895/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part I, CII, 489 ff.; Inderwick, Side-Lights on the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-on-witchcraft-70895/chapters/3/index.md)