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 II. The seventeenth century down to 1660

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20 RELIGION, COLONISING AND TRADE His breadth of view is illustrated by the statement in the essay ‘ Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates,’ that ¢ all states that are liberal of naturalisation towards strangers ate fit for Empire,’ 1 His views on colonising are contained mote especially in the well-known essay ¢ Of Plantations,’ 2 and in the letter of advice which he wrote in 1616 to the Duke of Buckingham when the latter became favourite to King James.3 It may be presumed that in the letter of advice he paid more attention to what would be palatable to the King’s man and the King than would be required in the essay. In the letter he suggested that Commissioners should be appointed in the nature of a2 Council to ¢ regulate what concerns the colonies and give an account thereof to the King or to his Council of State.” In 1616 there can only have been three English colonies in existence, Virginia, Bermuda and Newfoundland ; and a Council for Virginia had been constituted before the colony was actually started. Bacon, therefore, was commendably early in suggesting a Council for English colonies generally. Colonies and foreign plantations he con- sidered ‘very Necessary, as outlets to a populous nation.” Both in the letter and in the essay he denounces the wickedness of sending out criminals to be the material wherewith to plant a colony. We think, as he thought, that it is a shameful and un- blessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you 1 The Works of Francis Bacon, ut sup., vol. vi, p. 447. 2 Ibid., pp. 457-60. 3 Letters and Life of Francis Bacon (1872), #t sup., vol. vi, pp. 21-2, 10-52.

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