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1Author:  Page Thomas Nelson 1853-1922Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Old Dominion  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: TO comprehend truly the achievement of the settlement of Jamestown and what it has signified to the world, and still signifies today, if we but knew it, it is necessary to go back among the forces that were at work in Western Europe during the time when the Dark Ages were giving way to the light of the New Learning. Many forces combined to produce the results, working with that patience which characterizes the laws of Nature. The energies of men had been engrossed by the exactions of war, and of a civilization based on war. The mind of man had been for ages monopolized by war militant or spiritual. Person and intellect alike lay under rule. Then gradually, after long lethargy, men began to think. Historians wrote; poets sang; statesmen planned; scientists experimented. The mariner's compass, whether brought by Marco Polo from the East, or invented by the Neapolitan, Flavio Gioja, or by some one else, came into use in Europe: other nautical instruments were invented or improved. Gunpowder was invented and gradually changed the methods of war. The New Learning began to sweep over Europe. The Art of printing from movable types was invented. The ice was broken up and the stream, long dammed, began to flow. The Reformation came and men burst the chains which had bound them.
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