Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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His attempt was to correct an opinion widelyheld in England of the lawlessness of colonial life. He interpreted thegreat massacre of 1622 as the end of one phase and the beginning ofanother. He showed that in each phase there was an inevitable period oflaxity of life and disregard of moral and legal conventions which wasovercome finally by the better element of citizenry. His writingpresents a dark picture of conditions, possibly too dark in somephases; but his picture of the power of the growi...ng colony to establishand maintain general concepts of decency of life and conduct isimpressive.
Of the period following the great massacre he wrote: Receiving a supply of men, ammunition and victuals out of England, they again gathered heart, pursued their enemies, and so often worsted them, that the Indians were glad to sue for peace, and they, (desirous of a cessation) consented to it.
They again began to bud forth, to spread further, to gather wealth, which they rather profusely spent (as gotten with ease) than providently husbanded, or aimed at any public good; or to make a country for posterity; but from hand to mouth, and for a present being; neglecting discoveries, planting orchards, providing for the winter preservation of their stocks, or thinking of anything stable or firm; and whilst tobacco, the only commodity they had to subsist on, bore a price, they wholly and eagerly followed that, neglecting their very planting of corn, and much relyed on England for the chiefest part of their provisions; so that being not alwayes amply supplied, they were often in such want, that their case and condition being relayted in England, it hindred and kept off many from going thither, who rather cast their eyes on the barren and freezing soyle of New-England, than to joyn with such an indigent and sottish people as were reported to be in Virginia.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
His attempt was to correct an opinion widelyheld in England of the lawlessness of colonial life. He interpreted thegreat massacre of 1622 as the end of one phase and the beginning ofanother. He showed that in each phase there was an inevitable period oflaxity of life and disregard of moral and legal conventions which wasovercome finally by the better element of citizenry. His writingpresents a dark picture of conditions, possibly too dark in somephases; but his picture of the power of the growi...ng colony to establishand maintain general concepts of decency of life and conduct isimpressive.
Of the period following the great massacre he wrote: Receiving a supply of men, ammunition and victuals out of England, they again gathered heart, pursued their enemies, and so often worsted them, that the Indians were glad to sue for peace, and they, (desirous of a cessation) consented to it.
They again began to bud forth, to spread further, to gather wealth, which they rather profusely spent (as gotten with ease) than providently husbanded, or aimed at any public good; or to make a country for posterity; but from hand to mouth, and for a present being; neglecting discoveries, planting orchards, providing for the winter preservation of their stocks, or thinking of anything stable or firm; and whilst tobacco, the only commodity they had to subsist on, bore a price, they wholly and eagerly followed that, neglecting their very planting of corn, and much relyed on England for the chiefest part of their provisions; so that being not alwayes amply supplied, they were often in such want, that their case and condition being relayted in England, it hindred and kept off many from going thither, who rather cast their eyes on the barren and freezing soyle of New-England, than to joyn with such an indigent and sottish people as were reported to be in Virginia.
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