From the dramatic exposition, pages 3-8

1231—politically motivated
Devil (what goes up must go down)
Social and economic animosity

1234—sect of fanatics who…

1235 – 2 man patrol / other people’s business
Unity still lay the best promise of safety
Woods – west – fear of unknown
Couldn’t convert – would rather take land from heathens
“carried an air of innate resistance, even of persecution”

1236—held candle that would light the world
Gave discipline
Virginia colony at Jamestown -individuals looking to take $ back to England
Found strength in unity
They needed this in order to survive in this “space so antagonistic to man”
Theocracy
Last para of 1236 and top of 1237

1237—the witchhunt was not, however, a mere repression