On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Christopher Stetson wrote: > Hey, let's not perpetuate the Victorian myth that the Puritans > didn't like sex,
Robert Adams, my favorite professor at UCLA (he was editor of the 17th century portion of the Norton Anthology of English Literature) noted that Puritans often had very large families with eight or ten children. He said "You can be the biggest libertine in the world and not have that many kids. But godly devotion to duty..." -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
