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Excerpt from Hochelaga: England in the New World
Civilization in its progress has ever followed the direction of light; it arose far Eastward; gradually it shone over Greece, then Rome; it culminates over Western Europe; and even now, its morning light is upon America, while the World it first enlightened is sinking into darkness.
There seems to have been always an instinct in the minds of imaginative men, that far away in the West there existed a great Continent; a New World, ready to receive the overflow of the burden of humanity that pressed upon the Old. "Atlantis" long ago expressed a consciousness of such a want, and a belief that it would be supplied. Strange to say, this prophetic feeling was responded to by the inhabitants of those unknown regions: among the wild and stern Mic-Macs of the North, and the refined and gentle Yncas of the South, a presentiment of their coming fate was felt. They believed that a powerful race of men were to come "from the rising sun," to conquer their nations and possess their lands.
The theories of old Greece and Roman Spain became legends; legends became tradition; tradition became faith, and Columbus assumed his mission: in him the old "Westering" instinct amounted to an inspiration; he burst his way through the Known to the Unknown; he revealed to us a world abounding in capabilities, deficient only in mankind.
Then the necessity of the Old World found relief; Europe rushed forth to colonize - each nation according to its character - leaving for ever the stamp of that character impressed upon its colony. Spaniards, led to the New World by the lust of gold, soon sacrificed their America to slavery.
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