The school physiology journal . s, setsail from Eng-land just as theseventeenth cen-tury was usheredin. The futurehad much bitter-ness in store forthem, but uncon-scious of it then, their hopes were as brightas the garb of their leaders. This colony at Jamestown was composed ofEnglish knights of high rank, to whom theliberal terms of the home government hadmade colonization an object, and who for vari-ous reasons desired to try their fortunes also included many needy adventurers, vaga-bond gentlemen, and servants of no good repu-tation. At no time did this colony makereligion, or the
The school physiology journal . s, setsail from Eng-land just as theseventeenth cen-tury was usheredin. The futurehad much bitter-ness in store forthem, but uncon-scious of it then, their hopes were as brightas the garb of their leaders. This colony at Jamestown was composed ofEnglish knights of high rank, to whom theliberal terms of the home government hadmade colonization an object, and who for vari-ous reasons desired to try their fortunes also included many needy adventurers, vaga-bond gentlemen, and servants of no good repu-tation. At no time did this colony makereligion, or the education of their children sub-jects of prime importance. One writer remarksthat they abstained from education as from aPuritan vice. The words of Sir William Berk-ley on the subject have become historic : I thank God that there are no free schoolsnor printing [in Virginia], and I hope we shallnot have them these hundred years, for learninghas brought disobedience and heresy and sectsjnto the world, and printing has developed. Courtesy of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. TW Ruins of them and libels against the government. Godkeep us from both. But all did not sympathize with him, and lessthan two centuries thereafter Virginia becamethe Mother of Presidents. These richVirginia planters found it possible to make aluxurious living for themselves out of the re-sponsive soil in that perfect climate. They hadleisure to cultivate those amenities of life whichtheir more energetic northern countrymen didnot. Their work was performed largely byslaves, and they amused themselves by huntingand other diversions. Many of the more unwor-thy disgraced the colony by the use to which theyput this leisure. Others represented the typefor which Washington will always stand. Theyintroduced into our civilization the gentle cour-tesy, the gracious hospitality, and the sweetattractiveness of manner for which the Southhas ever been justly renowned. What Plymouthwas to the North,Jamestown wasto the ea
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