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coveries and settlements in North America, Bacon and Coke, Hooker and
Sandys, Hampden and Milton, Lilburne and Baxter, Hobbes and Locke
argued, wrote, quarrelled and fought over every principle of religlon,
self-government and personal freedom known to mankind.  Although
newspapers were already in existence, forty thousand pamphlets
circulated among the English people during the first half of the
seventeenth century. Rarely has there ever appeared in such a short
period so many men of high intellectual ability and moral integrity-
never quite so many ready to die for their ideals.  Even the illiterate
of the mid-seventeenth century must have known a good deal a about the
everlasting problem of equitable government.
 
 
From the turmoil  of Stuart England there came hundreds of
entrepreneurs who hoped to build on the protected peninsulars and
islands of the North American mainland ducal and manorial estates like
those which had been the models in European economic and social life
for five hundred years.  When all Europe took to smoking or chewing
tobacco, when sugar came to be of common use about 1650, the
opportunities of grand-scale