Roger Williams was a very religious puritan that believed that separation from the Anglicans and his disturbing pamphlet was …show more content…
By the time of his arrival in the colonies, Williams had adopted an inflexible separatist posture in which he demanded that the churches in the Bay sever all contact with the corrupt Church of England. While there were certainly separatists in Massachusetts Bay, Williams's demands startled the New Englanders who apparently were unaware of his extreme position on separation” (Neff 11). Williams argues that religion and government should be separated. His firm belief as a “Godly man” resembles the theme God. Williams alleged that stopping fault within religion was impossible, it required people who acknowledge themselves within God. He then settled that the …show more content…
The degree to which he himself was motivated by his views on God, man, and nature allowed him to strike emotional chords and to inspire understanding in the reader. In his book Nature, Emerson talks about the current tendency to accept the knowledge and traditions of the past instead of experiencing God and nature directly, in the present. Emerson resembles the theme Geography in many ways. “As the reviewer understood, Nature was not a Christian book but one influenced by a range of idealistic philosophies, ancient and modern, Transcendentalism being merely the latest name for a way of thinking going back to Plato and more recently refashioned by a number of European romantics” (Levine 212). Emerson describes nature and spirit as the workings of the universe. He emphasizes that our curiosity about the order of the universe — about the relations between God, man, and nature — can be answered by our involvement of life and by the world around us. Everyone is a manifestation of formation and as such embraces the key to solving the mysteries of the universe. Nature, too, is both an expression of the heavenly and a means of understanding it. Emerson says, “In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.” Emerson describes how the geography of America is a beautiful admiration, but people of it and