Religion, colonising & trade

Bibliographic data

Monograph

Identifikator:: 1834114039

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222204

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lucas, Charles Prestwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/101180705

Title:: Religion, colonising & trade

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 84 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Chapter IV. 1688-1783

Collection:: Economics Books

1688-1783 passed away and until Wesley had first converted England. Nor was there any more fruitful result from the visit, two or three years earlier, of Bishop (then Dean) Berkeley to Rhode Island, and his scheme for a college in Bermuda, where men should be trained ‘ for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations, and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity.” He went out in 1728, commended by the S.P.C.K., having been granted a Royal Charter for his college, and having secured private subscrip- tions and the promise of a Parliamentary grant. But the grant was never forthcoming, and after three years spent in Rhode Island, he came back to England in 1731, without having even landed in Bermuda. The middle forty years of the eighteenth century, the years which followed the age of Walpole, included both the Seven Years War and the War of American Independence—Britain’s greatest success and her most signal failure. They were emphatically years of trade domination, but still there were minds’ at work, ill content with the conditions and the outlook. Adam Smith had been for years engaged in writing the * Wealth of Nations >—the Bible of free trade, before it was eventually published in 1776. In it he quoted Sir Matthew Decker, author of ‘ An Essay on the causes of the Decline of the Foreign Trade, conse- quently of the value of the lands of Britain and of the means to restore both,” which was begun in 1739, and of which a second edition was published in 17409. 71 boasted the conversion of two Indians,” etc. (p. 59). He reprobates English treatment of the natives except in Pennsylvania, the people of which province, he says ‘are the only people who have treated the savages with justice and humanity > (p. 84).

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Religion, colonising & trade

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation