To me, the golden spiral is the proportional basis that makes the most sense. In a landscape painting the views eye is automatically directed to the center of the spiral and can be used by the artist to put their subject in the eye of the viewer.
The earliest New world period literature was found in the form of Puritan Doctrines.
Puritan means religious.
Puritan people only wanted to reform a strong church to be able to establish a strong member of people that fight for their belief.