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Quotation from A Model of Christian Charity by John Winthrop
“For it is a true rule that particular Estates cannot subsist in the ruin of the publique.”
A Model of Christian Charity, Application, p. 45 (1838 printing) (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1838)
Winthrop's argument that in founding a plantation the care of the public must overrule private interests.
Citation: "For it is a true rule that particular Estates cannot subsist in the ruin of the publique." — John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, Application, p. 45 (1838 printing) (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1838). (id a-model-of-christian-charity-q4)
Portrait: A Modell of Christian Charity, 1838 printing by the Massachusetts Historical Society, Unknown author, Public domain.
