. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . Charta,but by the union of church and state, thethought and the activities of the Englishpeople were authoritatively uniform, andany departure from traditional belief,either in matters ecclesiastical or civil, wasviewed with disapproval. But a people of so diversified agenius for good government as are thepeople of Anglo-Saxon stock could notlong- remain subject to serious limitationson their prosperity. America was theopportunity for liberty, the first opportu-nity for the diversification of Anglo-Saxonenergies, and for the real
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . Charta,but by the union of church and state, thethought and the activities of the Englishpeople were authoritatively uniform, andany departure from traditional belief,either in matters ecclesiastical or civil, wasviewed with disapproval. But a people of so diversified agenius for good government as are thepeople of Anglo-Saxon stock could notlong- remain subject to serious limitationson their prosperity. America was theopportunity for liberty, the first opportu-nity for the diversification of Anglo-Saxonenergies, and for the realization of thehopes of mankind. There is a uniformityin the development of human is improved in means andmethods by improvements in manufactures, and a larger conception of thenature of the State always finds response in the home comforts of the opportunities of America caused greater comfort and happiness amongthe English people who stayed at home. The colonization of America by the English was after two systems, that of the 95. FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE, 96 THE STORY OF AMERICA. commercial enterprise, that of the religious undertaking: the commercial systemwas illustrated in the Virginia enterprise, the religious undertaking, in the NewEngland. Sir Walter Raleigh had conceived of planting a colony in the Carolinas,but his colony, had it succeeded, would have been a repetition of an Englishshire, continuing the limitations on the common life, the limitations of propertyand condition incident to English life at the close of the sixteenth saved America for larger undertakings, and though the ideas ofRaleigh were at the foundation of the first Virginia adventure, the charter of1606 gave larger privileges to the adventurers than had the charter to Raleighor to Gilbert of nearly a quarter of a century before; and the first adventureto Virginia demonstrated that a new age had come, for the conditions of life inthe wilderness would
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