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The Growth Of New England Was A Result Of The Aggregate Efforts Of A Busy Multitude, Each In His Narrow Circle Toiling For Himself, To Gather Competence Or Wealth. The Expansion Of New France Was The Achievement Of A Gigantic Ambition Striving To Grasp A Continent. It Was A Vain Attempt.

If Any Pale Student, Glued To His Desk, Here Seek An Apology For A Way Of Life Whose Natural Fruits Is That Pallid And Emasculate Scholarship Of Which New England Has Had Too Many Examples, It Will Be Far Better That This Sketch Had Not Been Written. For The Student There Is, In Its Season, No Better Place Than The Saddle, And No Better Companion Than The Rifle Or The Oar.

In The Middle Of The Sixteenth Century, Spain Was The Incubus Of Europe. Gloomy And Portentous, She Chilled The World With Her Baneful Shadow.

France Built Its Best Colony On A Principle Of Exclusion, And Failed; England Reversed The System, And Succeeded.

Here Society Is Reduced To Its Original Elements, The Whole Fabric Of Art And Conventionality Is Struck Rudely To Pieces, And Men Find Themselves Suddenly Brought Back To The Wants And Resources Of Their Original Natures.