Religion, colonising & trade

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Identifikator:: 1834114039

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

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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

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Title:: Chapter I. The sixteenth century

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THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 7 called adventurers across the ocean. The hope of finding treasures of gold, wrote Adam Smith in ‘ The Wealth of Nations,” was the sole motive which inspired the Spanish conquest of America, and the search for new gold mines he denounced as a ruin- ous proceeding, leading in most cases to bankruptcy. Speaking in November 1855 to a working men’s audience on the subject of ‘Our Colonies,” Mr. Gladstone gave love of gold as the initial motive of modern colonisation ; the false idea that gold was to be found in immense quantities in North America, he said, did a work which the true idea never could have done, and the very delusion was made an instrument in the hands of Providence for forwatding the peopling of the vast spaces of America.2 A vain hope of gold in a stone which was brought back from Martin Frobisher’s first voyage to the Atzctic regions gave a great and immediate though wholly baseless impetus to two further voyages. Raleigh, after fruitless attempts to found colonies on more or less sound lines, was in his later days carried away to search for a mythical golden city. All down the centuries the lure of gold has gone on, though in modern times it has not been so much thesearch for gold in unknownand unexplored regions, as the lute of gold, where substantial finds of gold have already actually been made. Ballarat and Kalgoorlie, Klondike, and the Rand bear witness to ! Book IV, chap. vii, Part I. * Address to members of the Mechanics’ Institute at Chester, November 12, 1855, on ‘Our Colonies,” printed in Gladstone and Britain's Imperial Policy, by Paul Knaplund, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History in the University of Wisconsin (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.,1927), see pp. 191-2.

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