Cotton Mather
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Originally entitled Bonifacius, New England Puritan pastor Cotton Mather wrote Essays to do Good as a call to people everywhere to seek to make change
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in the world around them for good. In Mather's day, an "essay" was an attempt, or an endeavor, so that the meaning of the title is something like "endeavors to do good." Short, highly readable, with chapters speaking directly to people in all sorts of stations in life, Mather's book is a stirring challenge to "find some good that you can do." It is little wonder that a teenaged Benjamin Franklin was motivated by this little book.
In this edition, the original text of Essays has been newly typeset and formatted for a modern audience.
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