The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-07-30
The Historic Signifca nee Of the Ian.
town Exposition.
n, HENRY T. sHEpla u. = .. n.

The civilization that has b~roadened
at.vtv DOWN hr8us the ages from
au inning ST Roanoke 4s4@na
jamestown and st MsF3 - haF14S
areamsd 81 ia the dominant saac8
st,naa vnttosophy q cur day iF
-. ,ba,r~ L. rich 4n varied fa~rina-
go. IA well as stimulating power y.
rr ne go bIest ends Of intellectual
afsd spiritual culture The pefa"@ 49,
cEien, with the earliest ahNH@AA
English colonization In N"t1h
1fre Virginia. and Mar land. LssN
So r.ss b. ursxcriled IN world re-
cords FOR the spleudor - il l1eFSts
a~htevament NJ. Illustrated ~ the VET
eatIe ana un~tarnAblc prose ot Eacoh'
the symphonic II Hooker IN" h~AtNh
less rhythm q Marlowe Aod S0~h'
r4are he Golden cadence 81 2 NihN
tam- nthlc BEGAN In the au~ptclouN
wear 1907. that sax tAe first aS<uF'd
rantiuE u the English race upoh th'
Ranks or the poNatan river IL IN"
Virginia whose name AZ least h.H
lsarei Ia ltfe with the coming of tsAt
.,f~.'~ colonies Is oapuko Island. near
Is "A quarter ~ "A century before io>s
1880 No period was ever - au~p1cioh@
FOR the transpianttng ~ an f-hfaA'!'
civilization. for the creation OF a h"N
English patton by the ~unpat1ed waters
and tho undreamcd shores ~ the 'hs1
\1rgin{an world. which q thus pIi
h..n touched or the breatN ~ q To-
nance race alone. had heard the tom
erlr Of paris or Madrld and Knew h"R
TIE accents Of Chaucer or - Spencer
All tic charms ~ all iN" muses..
seemed to fall upon TINS cradle - ing
lish in our fruit fullest var
efnla. to which Spencer. Us
ing the term in It's carrier
geographical sense as appiiSi
10 the colonies founded by Raleigi'
had spoken with the herdcteTfs'lc
80 I&-- EaE 81
in the 2nd book Of the Fairy queen
Shakespeare Was Mt his climax just
as Jamestown was founded Macbeth
had probably appeared the preceding
Year: Milton Was born In zoos KAT
eigh had been Il prisoner IN the rover
since his first TRIAL in 1908 the Ad-
vancenent Of Learning. an epoch
making work Of the FIRST magnitude.
was issued in 1905. our vigorous
abe English refoiced IN is lux
uriant youth: its bounding life had not
begun 10 wither under the ~blightlng
touch OF conventional prescription.
These are its landmarks. Mariowe.
Shakespeare. Bacon. spencer. Hooker
Raleigh. the King James Version. and
there is the robust and aggressive
idion which was brought 70 James
town by Captain JOnn smith. the se-
MUS and the inspiration or the col
ony. such was the EIizabethan Eng
land from which sprane our south
err civiliZat!on-chantcd by Spencer,
localized by Shakespeare, extolied In
r%apturous strains by Daniel OF the sill
Ner-tongue, glorified and illustrated
ty Washington. Jefferson. Yancy. Mar
shall and Lee. The planting OF the col
ony~ at Jamestown was an event which
aroused O far reaching AMI critical
interest in the cultured circles of
F~lizabcthan England. The enthusiasm
o. the time ssumed q diversity OF
forms. and displayed its energy in va
ryinr ypeG.~ commercial. geographical,
political. The adventurous and pro-
phctic explorations Of Raleigh were
now attaining their legitimate result.
the prisoner in the Tower locke out
pon the rising OF the fifth and last