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blockhouses and they keep rangers on guard far up the great rivers.

All the world is changing, and the changes are fraught with significance
for America. Feudalism has passed; scholasticism has gone; politics,
commerce, philosophy, religion, science, invention, music, art, and
literature are rapidly altering. In England William and Mary pass away.
Queen Anne begins her reign of twelve years. Then, in 1714, enters the
House of Hanover with George the First. It is the day of Newton and
Locke and Berkeley, of Hume, of Swift, Addison, Steele, Pope, Prior, and
Defoe. The great romantic sixteenth century, Elizabeth's spacious time,
is gone. The deep and narrow, the intense, religious, individualistic
seventeenth century is gone. The eighteenth century, immediate parent of
the nineteenth, grandparent of the twentieth, occupies the stage.

In the year 1704, just over a decade since Dr. Blair had obtained the
charter for his College, the erratic and able Governor of Virginia,
Francis Nicholson, was recalled. For all that he was a wild talker, he
had on the whole done well for Virginia. He was, as far as is known,
the first person actually to propose a federation or union of all
those English-speaking political divisions, royal provinces, dominions,
palatinates, or what not, that had been hewed away from the vast
original Virginia. He did what he could to forward the movement for
education and the fortunes of the William and Mary College. But he is
quoted as having on one occasion informed the body of the people that
"the gentlemen imposed upon them." Again, he is said to have remarked of
the servant population that they had all been kidnapped and had a lawful
action against their masters. "Sir," he stated to President Blair, who
would have given him advice from the Bishop of London, "Sir, I know how
to govern Virginia and Maryland better than all the bishops in England!
If I had not hampered them in Maryland and kept them under, I should
never have been able to govern them!" To which Blair had to say, "Sir,
if I know anything of Virginia, they are a good-natured, tractable
people as any in the world, and you may do anything with them by way
of civility, but you will never be able to manage them in that way you
speak of, by hampering and keeping them under!"*

* William and Mary College Quarterly, vol. I, p. 66.

About this time arrived Claude de Richebourg with a number of Huguenots
who settled above the Falls. Fir