Dr. Robert Allison
speaker
326 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
Dr. Robert Allison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they say, that is the craziest idea we have ever heard.
What the selectmen do, they say no, no to this.
They say what we'll do is we'll hire some free people of color to sweep the street so people will see we're actually doing something.
And then...
Because Mather is a prolific writer.
He's the most prolific writer in the history of Boston.
He published over 300 books.
He writes about the smallpox, what should be done about it.
Now, this gives rise to a new era.
newspaper in town.
James Franklin starts a newspaper, the New England Current, with a purpose of countering this ridiculous idea of self-procurement of smallpox.
And by the way, Franklin's younger brother Benjamin is his apprentice.
And the New England Current says, what do these things have in common?
The persecution of the Quakers in 1660, the execution of the witches in 1693, the self-procurement of smallpox in 1721.
The common denominator is Cotton Mather was involved in all of these things.
And now he wants us to inject ourselves with a disease that's going to kill us.
So this doesn't make sense to Bostonians.
Someone actually throws a bomb through Mather's window.
Wow.
It doesn't go off.
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