about the of and the inherent of man and the portion of his nature that christ derived from his mother with of the right of a man to be a magistrate and a church member at the same time were in the heated brain of the scrupulous but robinson saw that these would involve the church if it remained in in robinson the force of had already spent itself and his practical wisdom had set bounds to the course of his chap iii s plantation z removal to i the book ii s plantation window s relation log c to leave the dutch metropolis for a smaller place was to reduce the to still deeper poverty but nevertheless the fled from discord as they had fled from persecution and removed to the university city of called by its admirers the of the after their departure english in went on tearing itself to pieces in a sincere endeavor to find ultimate truth but robinson s people in spite of their poverty were united and were honored by those among whom they others hearing of their good report came to them from england and the church of was fairly prosperous danger of iv but when ten years of exile had passed the outlook was not a pleasant one the life in was so hard that many chose to return to their own land preferring english to liberty at so dear a rate the tender hearts of many a loving father and mother were wounded to see children growing under the weight of hard and incessant toil the vigor of nature being consumed in the very bud as it were some of the young people were by the of the city others joined the dutch army or made long voyages at sea acquiring habits very foreign to the of their parents the result of a contest between the rigid of the little church and the the pilgrim in holland was not to be doubted human nature can not remain always at concert pitch with the dutch had already begun and all that was peculiar in the english community was about to be swallowed up and lost forever in the great current of dutch life which flowed about it was in its very nature even it was not possible for a church led by such men as robinson and and and and to remain content where national prejudices and a difference in language barred the way to the exertion of influence on the life about them with destruction by threatening their church these leaders conceived the project of forming a new state where they might with the liberty of a good conscience enjoy the pure scripture worship of god without the mixture of human inventions and and their children after them might walk in the holy ways of the lord v what suggested in the thought of to america we do not know just twenty years earlier in some imprisoned had the council that they might be allowed to settle in the province of canada an term at that time francis johnson with three others went out in that same year to look at the land the voyage was an unlucky one and chap iii planned compare in young and american s ii x i the book ii notes condition of virginia notes the settlement of johnson as of the church in was the result the which followed the accession of to the had started as early as a agitation among the in favor of to virginia but when only a few had got away the secured a preventing their escape from the means of grace provided for them in courts of high commission the year in which the agitation for began among the was the year after s return with highly colored reports of the condition of the virginia colony it is noticeable that among the books owned by elder at his death was a copy of s good from virginia published in was minister at in virginia and was the son of a divine of eminence who was master of st john s college cambridge it is possible that he was known to who had been at cambridge or to robinson who had resigned a fellowship there to become a himself was enough to the his good is plea for the support of the colony for religious reasons this plantation which the hath so often he says is revived and daily to more and hopeful at the very time when the first thought of there was beginning a new and interest in virginia this was based partly on religious en the pilgrim such as s book was meant to foster and partly on the hope of new and strange particularly silk even this silk illusion may have had its weight in a secondary way with the people for afterward governor at was a silk in and there were two books on in s library at his death to european eyes all america was one even to day the two are hardly distinguished by most people in europe the glowing account of given by helped to feed the new desire for an american home and it was only after serious debate that north america was chosen as more remote from the dreaded and safer from tropical diseases one can hardly imagine what american would have become under the skies of not only did the hesitate regarding their destination but there was a choice of to be made england had not been a mother to these outcast children and there was question of settling as english subjects in america or becoming dutch there vi the preferred to be english notwithstanding all but they wished to with england for us liberty in this matter they had recourse to sir the one man who would probably be both able and willing to chap iii of books s on elder application to i the book ii hunter 