"Wohin weiter"

Religion, colonising & trade

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Identifikator:: 897667751

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-15473

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Angerman, Claudius http://d-nb.info/gnd/139656359

Title:: "Wohin weiter"

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (35 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. Rationelle Mittel

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THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY II Elizabeth as a motive for beginning the Empire. It is equally certain that the plea produced no effect. In the modern Sir Walter Raleigh’s opinion, as given in his essay, John Davis was almost the only English sailor of his time who had a sincere belief that it was England’s mission to carry the Gospel to the Gentiles, and a brilliant passage in the essay sums up the religion of the Elizabethan adventuters in the following words: ¢ These men, though there was little of saintliness in their character, had a religion and fought and suffered forit. It was a religion not wholly unlike that of the later Orangeman, a Protestant compound, made up of fervid patriotism, a varied assortment of hates, a rough code of morals, and an unshaken trust in the providence of God. To the heathen they brought not peace but a sword.” ? Theirs was a very living creed, though it did not enure to the benefit of the American Indians. One of Martin Frobishet’s orders to his captains on his third voyage was that ‘if any man in the fleet come up in the night and hail his fellow knowing him not, he shall give him this watchword, Before the wotld was God. The other shall answer him, if he be one of our fleet, after God came Christ his Son.” # Drake on one or mote occasions ordered the whole ship’s company of The Golden Hind to partake of the Holy Com- munion. Gilbert’s last known words before he was lost in the sea were © we are as near to heaven by sea as by land.’ 4 It was not onlv in the lives and conversations of ! Hakluyt, vol. xii, p. 31. 3 Ibid., vol, vii, p. 323. 2 Ibid. p. 34. 4 Ibid. vol. viii, ». 74.

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