The church-state of Massachusetts and New Haven was overthrown at the end of the first generation by external interference.

If it had continued a few years longer it must have fallen of itself; but it lasted long enough to be the mold in which the civilization of the young States should set and harden.
FOOTNOTES: [84:1] The mutual opposition of Puritan and Pilgrim is brought out with emphasis in "The Genesis of the New England Churches," by L.Bacon, especially chaps.v., vii., xviii.
[85:1] L.Bacon, "Genesis of New England Churches," p.

245.
[87:1] L.Bacon, "Genesis," p.

245.
[89:1] The writer takes leave to refer to two essays of his own, in "Irenics and Polemics" (New York, Christian Literature Co., 1895), for a fuller statement of this point.
[91:1] L.Bacon, "Genesis," p.

467.
[94:1] The phrase is used in a large sense, as comprehending the whole subject of the nature and organization of the visible church (L.Bacon, "Genesis," p.