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Morse, Jedidiah was born on August 23, 1761 in Woodstock, Connecticut, United States. Son of Jedidiah and Sarah (Child) Morse.
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Jedidiah Morse - clergyman, geographer, and father of the painter and inventor Samuel Morse - was a significant figure in post-Revolutionary New England. Through his popular geography texts, he described the new nation to Americans. As a prominent Congregationalist minister, he involved himself deeply in the heated religious controversies of his day. As a polemicist, he voiced the anxieties Americans felt about such turbulent events as the French Revolution and the political and religious changes their own country was undergoing. As Richard Moss reveals in this compelling biography, Morse was caught in a personal dilemma that reflected the larger tensions within his society. On the one hand, he played the role of self-sacrificing minister - a role drawn from the expectations of his father and the Connecticut traditions in which he was reared. In this capacity, he adopted the language of Christian Republicanism and sought to defend the virtues of communitarian village life, austerity, and deference to the Federalist leadership. On the other hand, Morse recognized the opportunities offered by the emerging liberal, capitalist culture. As an author and speculator, he amassed a small fortune and became enmeshed in a web of financial gambles that ultimately ruined him. Drawing on psychological theory, Moss argues that, far from remaining separate, the two sides of Jedidiah Morse were dependent upon each other. Because Morse lacked a sense of wholeness, Moss contends, he projected a public persona - that of the devoted cleric - to compensate for the "hidden" identity he feared - that of the capitalist individualist. In this light, Morse's penchant for conspiracy theories - directed against such groups as the French Illuminati and the Unitarians - can be seen as "ritual moments" in which he strove to prove himself loyal to his Christian concept of virtue.
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Excerpt from Review of American Unitarianism Ers are suspended by death, and admit of no revival but by the revival ofthe 1nan, a fact the expectation of which is ent1rely unsupported both by experience and anal ogy, the speculations of philosophy would commonly, and almost necessarily, term1 nate in the disbelief of a future existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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GazetteÃi, wheger it eitjiehdsgto ghe ihience in fenerdlidii. is confined to fmt particular branch of it, tt icficientlt drhhacv.. (edged ando vines; ince it may bc occaionally cotiitlttd by thc reader, who can immediateb turn to the ;iebjct? on which he wwe; in ormation, which might co7 him much time to #nd in a rigular yjlem or continued narrative. The grÂnt volume coltiis, i fail, of; the American Geography cf DGCTGRC Moist, a work ofthi greate2 accuracy and merit, digg Yed into theform of a Gazetteer, but, as will appearfrom the Preface Qthe judicious A uthor, with many important additions and improvements. It is priizmed that 1tech a worh cannot hut be highbt accepttiblc cafe(ons jcience in this country, and to the glib ic in general, wen it is catyfdered that the American States, notwith Iattdinf their iiyiance front Europe, have Wincreei;id in population and wealth, as to hecome no little tviportance to its intereis; ana have latterly appeared, in Wmc degree, to extend their iniuencc to what has been termed its balance. .P olitical opinion: and 25putes, and, Eiiecialb, the violent commotion: which have convuled the Ffer 3tngilom, have al# conhderahbt increaed the nttmber emigrations to that country; and thofe who i engage, whether from choice or neciyity, ityuch undertakings, -will naturally wih to obtain the correct in drmation rclattve to the part te world iii which they mean to tahe up their reeklence. This, it may without hÃftation be ajertcd, they -will here jind. Lind:iill more to accommodate fueh perhns, it has been thought not improper to Qiehyoin ez ftnall trail, entitled, Fa&s and Calculaiiibns, written Ba gentle? man who holds an important Llation in the Hmerican Sfates, and containing ujijul hints and information to litch as intend to remove to Htnerica. The pr nt Edition Qthis Gazetteer may very claim a degree #Q uperiority to that p (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Excerpt from Report to the Secretary of War of the United States: On Indian Affairs, Comprising a Narrative of a Tour Performed in the Summer of 1820, Under a Commission From the President of the United States, for the Purpose of Ascertaining, for the Use of the Government, the Actual State of the Indian Tribes in Our C Your attention will be directed to ascertain the actual condition of the various tribes, which you may visit, in a religious, moral, and political point of view, and your report to the Department, which you will make, at such times as will be convenient, will comprehend all such facts, with your re?ections on them, as will go to illustrate this interesting subject. You will particularly as certain, as far as practicable, the number of the various tribes which you may visit, and those adjacent; the extent of territory, with the nature of the soil, and climate of the country occupied by them; their mode of life, customs, laws and political institu tions; and the character and disposition of their most in?uential men. You will also particularly report on the number of schools, their position, the number and character of the teachers, the num ber of scholars of each sex, the plan of education, with the degree of success which appears to attend the respective schools, and the disposition which appears to exist in the tribes, and with their chief men, to promote among them education and civilization. You will also report your opinion as to the improvements which may be made, and the new establishments, to promote the object of the government in civilizing the Indians, which can be advantageously formed. The moral condition of the Indians will necessarily be very de pendent ou the character of the trade with them, and a subject so important will, of course, claim your attention. You will report such facts, as may come within your knowledge, as will go to show the state of the trade with them, and the character of the traders, and will suggest such improvements in the present system of In dian trade, as in your opinion will render it better calculated to secure peace between them and us, and will contribute more e?i ciently to advance their moral condition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Morse, Jedidiah was born on August 23, 1761 in Woodstock, Connecticut, United States. Son of Jedidiah and Sarah (Child) Morse.
Graduated from Yale, 1783. Studied theology, New Haven, Connecticut, 1783-1785. South.T.D. (honorary), University Edinburgh (Scotland), 1794.
Views; member board overseers Harvard. Assisted in founding The Mercury and New England Palladium, 1801. Founder, editor The Panoplist, 1805-1810.
A founder, General Association of Massachusetts, Andover Theological Seminary, 1808, Park Saint Church, Boston, 1809, New England Tract Society, 1814, American Bible Society, 1816.
Member American Board Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1811-1819. Commissioned by secretary war to study conditions of the Indian nations, 1820, published report, 1822.
Member Phi Beta Kappa. Known as “father of American Geography.” Author: Geography Made Easy, 1784 (1st published American geography).
The American Geography, 1789.
The American Universal Geography. Elements of Geography, 1795. The American Gazeteer, 1797.
A New Gazeteer for the Eastern Continent, 1802.
Coauthor A Compendious History of New England, 1804. True Reasons on which The Election of a Hollis Professor of Divinity in Harvard College Was Opposed by the Board of Overseers, 14 February, 1805, 1805.
A Report to the Secretary of War—On Indian Affairs, Comprising A Narrative of a Tour Performed in the Summer of 1820, 1822.
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(Jedidiah Morse - clergyman, geographer, and father of the...)
(GazetteÃi, wheger it eitjiehdsgto ghe ihience in fenerdli...)
Member board overseers Harvard. Member American Board Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1811-1819. Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Elizabeth Breese, May 14, 1789, 11 children including Samuel Finley Breese, Sidney Edwards, Richard.