The history and progress of the world . ions—religion and religious freedom. Pilgrims and Puritans,Separatists and Quakers, Huguenots and Roman Catho-lics, had all come to this country that they mjght have aplace in which to worship God according to the dictates oftheir own conscience. Nor were the stout Churchmen,the first settlers of Virginia, less pronounced in their pro-fession of faith. When the British colonists began torealize their actual separation from the mother country,with all its benefits and privileges, they set themselvesrigorously to work to supply their needs according to the
The history and progress of the world . ions—religion and religious freedom. Pilgrims and Puritans,Separatists and Quakers, Huguenots and Roman Catho-lics, had all come to this country that they mjght have aplace in which to worship God according to the dictates oftheir own conscience. Nor were the stout Churchmen,the first settlers of Virginia, less pronounced in their pro-fession of faith. When the British colonists began torealize their actual separation from the mother country,with all its benefits and privileges, they set themselvesrigorously to work to supply their needs according to theirown estimate of the comparative importance of these. Toobtain a learned and godly ministry seemed a prime neces-sity. Hence the early establishment of colleges—Har-vard and Yale in the Seventeenth Century. Thoughboth bear the name of English benefactors, they reallydepended on the support of the colonists themselves. Inloyal Virginia, the ancient William and Mary receivedmore substantial aid from England and bears the name of 392. AMERICAN 393 the sovereigns who granted its charter; yet it has not beenable to survive the vicissitudes of later College, founded in New York City, in the sameloyal spirit, afterward entered on a new career as ColumbiaCollege, and has commenced a still more promising era asColumbia University. Dartmouth, near the northernfrontier of New Hampshire, was a missionary enterprise,intended to benefit Indians as well as whites, but foundits work practically confined to the latter. Princeton, inNew Jersey, and Brown at Providence, Rhode Island,depended on denominational support, the former fromPresbyterians, the latter from Baptists. The Universityof Pennsylvania is the outgrowth of one of the numerousproposals of Benjamin Franklin for the benefit of his fel-low citizens of Philadelphia. In all of these educationalinstitutions a large majority of the graduates before theNineteenth Century became ministers in various intel
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