"Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother."
— Cotton Mather

January 1, 1970

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Magnalia Christi Americana (The Ecclesiastical History of New England), s. 63 (1702). Mather, commenting on the spiritual condition of the colonies, cited an old saying in Latin: Religio peperit Divitias, et filia devoravit matrem.