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style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>The Puritan Way</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>8</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>The Quaker Ethic</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>28</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Republican Simplicity</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>50</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Republicanism Transformed</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>74</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Simplicity Domesticated</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>100</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Transcendental Simplicity</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>125</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Patrician Simplicity At Bay</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>154</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="second_toc_column"><div class="second_toc_pad"><table><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Progressive Simplicity</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" 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href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=colonial&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>colonial</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=consumer&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>consumer</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=corrupt&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>corrupt</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=culture&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>culture</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=domestic&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>domestic</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=early&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>early</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=economic&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>economic</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Edward&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Edward</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Edward+Bok&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>Edward Bok</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Emerson&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Emerson</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=England&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>England</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=ethic&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>ethic</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=extravagance&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>extravagance</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=factory&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>factory</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=farm&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>farm</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=father&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>father</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Friends&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Friends</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=frugality&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>frugality</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Gilded+Age&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>Gilded Age</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Godkin&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Godkin</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Henry&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Henry</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=hereafter+cited&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>hereafter cited</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=History&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>History</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=homestead&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>homestead</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=human&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>human</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Ibid&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>Ibid</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=ideal&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>ideal</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=individual&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>individual</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=industrial&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>industrial</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=intellectual&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>intellectual</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=James&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>James</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Jefferson&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>Jefferson</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Jeffersonian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Jeffersonian</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=John+Adams&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>John Adams</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=John+Winthrop&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>John Winthrop</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=John+Woolman&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud2"><span dir=ltr>John Woolman</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Journal&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Journal</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=labor&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>labor</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Letters&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Letters</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=luxury&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>luxury</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=material&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>material</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=means&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>means</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=modern&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>modern</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=moral&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>moral</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=movement&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>movement</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Muir&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Muir</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Nashville+Agrarians&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>Nashville Agrarians</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=nature&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>nature</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=organization&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>organization</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=outlook&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>outlook</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=patrician&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>patrician</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Penn&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Penn</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=piety&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>piety</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=plain+living&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>plain living</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=political&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>political</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=practice&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>practice</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=progressive&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>progressive</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=promote&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>promote</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=prosperity&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>prosperity</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Puritan&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud1"><span dir=ltr>Puritan</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Quaker&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Quaker</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Ralph+Borsodi&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>Ralph Borsodi</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=reformers&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>reformers</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=religious&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>religious</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=republic&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>republic</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=republican+simplicity&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>republican simplicity</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=revival&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>revival</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Revolution&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=rich&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>rich</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Roosevelt&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Roosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=rural&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>rural</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Sam+Adams&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>Sam Adams</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Seton&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Seton</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=simple+living&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud0"><span dir=ltr>simple living</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=simpler&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>simpler</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=social&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud1"><span dir=ltr>social</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=society&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>society</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=spiritual&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>spiritual</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=spokesmen&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>spokesmen</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Thoreau&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud2"><span dir=ltr>Thoreau</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=tion&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>tion</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=traditional&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>traditional</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Transcendentalism&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Transcendentalism</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Transcendentalists&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Transcendentalists</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=urban&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>urban</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=values&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>values</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=virtue&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>virtue</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=vols&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>vols</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Voluntary+Simplicity&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Voluntary Simplicity</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=wealth&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=William&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>William</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=William+Penn&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>William Penn</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Winthrop&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Winthrop</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=Woodcraft+Indians&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>Woodcraft Indians</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=wrote&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>wrote</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=York&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud3"><span dir=ltr>York</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=young&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>young</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=-wSbGrOXJv8C&q=youth&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>youth</span></a></div></div></div></div><div class=vertical_module_list_row><h3 class=about_title><a name="citations_module_anchor"></a>References to this book</h3><div id=citations_module class=about_content><div id=citations_module_v><div class="left-column-outer"><div class="left-column-inner"><div class="crsiwrapper"><table class="rsi" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td class="coverdstd" align="center"><a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=szALv30Usi0C&source=gbs_citations_module_r&cad=4" ><img alt="" class="coverthumb hover-card-attach-point" 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