The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a
certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a
pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston; all with their eyes intently
fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, or at a
later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people
would have augured some awful business
in hand. It could have betokened
nothing short of the anticipated execution of some noted culprit, on whom the sentence of a
legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment. But, in that
early severity of the Puritan
character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn. It might
be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given
over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post. It might
be, that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or
vagrant Indian, whom the white man's fire-water had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven
with stripes into the shadow of the
forest. It might be, too, that a witch, like old Mistress Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate,
was to die upon the gallows.
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ten conclusions that might guide a country's development of a culturally appropriate Internet policy
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Do not spend vast sums of money to buy machinery that you are going to set down on top of existing dysfunctional institutions. The Internet, for example, will not fix your schools. Perhaps the Internet can be part of a much larger and more complicated plan for fixing your schools, but simply installing an Internet connection will almost surely be a waste of money.
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Learning how to use the Internet is primarily a matter of institutional arrangements, not technical skills
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