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COTTON MATHER: Magnalia by Cotton Mather

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Hence, though he were a zealous enemy to all vice, yet his practice was according to his judgment thus expressed: 'In the infancy of plantations, justice should be administered with more lenity than in a settled state; because people are more apt then to transgress; partly out of ignorance of new laws and orders, partly out of oppression of business, and other straits. [Lento Gradu][103] was the old rule; and if the strings of a new instrument be wound up unto their heighth, they will quickly crack.

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COTTON MATHER: Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), Volume 1

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