The English in America, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The English in America, Vol. 1: The Puritan ColoniesIN the history of the English colonies in America we can trace the operation of two forces, which, to borrow the language Of physics, may be called centrifugal and centripetal. The colonies were kept apart by variety Of climate, and therefore of occupation and interest. At the same time community Of origin and of political traditions, the need for mutual help, and still more for some uniform system of commercial administration, tended to draw the settlements together and to lay the foundation for national unity. SO far we have been almost exclusively concerned with the separate life and con¿icting interests Of the Southern plantations. Only here and there do we catch a faint glimpse of some half-conscious aspiration after unity.l But when we pass to the Northern settlements, we are at once brought face to face with those ideas and principles which at a later day served to weld the colonies into one commonwealth. Nor is that all. The scenes which are now coming before us actually display the tendency towards union at work. In the Federation of the New England colonies we see the germ and the foreshadow ing of the United Republic.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.