When William Penn called his colony a holy experiment he was referring to the fact that it was a major gamble in the sense that nothing may have come from it. But it ended up offering lots of money and land.
In the Elizabethan great chain of being, it was "minerals" that were at the lowest rung of human society, since it was believed that these were the foundations of plant life and nothing more.
<span> German: humanistic patronymic from Adam, using the Latin genitive. It is attested as a </span>surname<span> of German </span>origin<span> in 18th-century America. Hungarian: habitational </span>name<span> for someone from a place called Ádám in Bihar county.</span>
What is this german??????
