A.E. Reiff’s review of Jonathan Edwards
2/5: Tramping through the forests north of Flagstaff I remembered Sargent Bush and then read his Writings of Thomas Hooker. Hooker reminded of "the howling wilderness" a phrase also in Bradford which had further provoked an animus against the English, especially as one site argued that, omitting Hooker and Bradford, one can go right from Morton to Edwards to Thoreau and find present day Wilderness Society! Nuts. A teacher in my teens once said he thought Edwards was the smartest man in the world, the first American intellectual. That was enough then to discard him instantly. That teacher confi...
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