The Scarlet Letter
For what two " practical necessities " did the new colony set aside land?
Chapter one the prison door
Chapter one the prison door
The two practical necessities were a cemetery and a prison.
"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
The Scarlet Letter