FROM TIDEWATER TO THE MOUNTAINS.
Family and early career of Alexander Spotswood 370
He brings the privilege of habeas corpus to Virginia, but wrangles much with his burgesses 371
His energy and public spirit 372
How the Post-Office Act was resisted by the people 373, 375
Disputes as to power of appointing parsons 376
Beginnings of continental politics in America 376
Beginning of the seventy years' struggle with France 377
How the continental situation in America was affected by the war of the Spanish succession 378, 379
Different views of Spotswood and the assembly with regard to sending aid to Carolina 379, 380
How the royal governors became convinced that the thing most needed in English America was a continental government that could impose taxes 381
Franklin's plan for a federal union 381, 383
It was the failure of the colonies to adopt Franklin's plan that led soon afterwards to the Stamp Act 382, 383
How Spotswood regarded the unknown West 383
Attempts to cross the Blue Ridge 384
How the Blue Ridge was crossed by Spotswood 385xvi
Knights of the Golden Horseshoe 386
Spotswood's plan for communicating between Virginia and Lake Erie 387, 388
Condition of the postal service in the English colonies under Spotswood's administration 389
Brief mention of Governors Gooch and Dinwiddie 390
Importance of the Scotch-Irish migration to America 390, 391
In 1611 James I. began colonizing Ulster with settlers from Scotland and England 391
In Ulster they established flourishing manufactures of woollens and linens 392
Which excited the jealousy of rival manufacturers in England 393
Legislation against the Ulster manufacturers 393
Civil disabilities inflicted upon Presbyterians in Ulster 393
These circumstances caused such a migration to America that by 1770 it amounted to more than half a million souls 394
Many Scotch-Irish settled in the Shenandoah Valley, and were closely followed by Germans 395
This Shenandoah population exerted a most powerful democratizing influence upon the colony 396
Jefferson found in them his most powerful supporters 396
Lord Fairfax's home at Greenway Court; Fairfax's affection for Washington 397
How the surveying of Fairfax's frontier estates led Washington on to his public career 398
The advance of Virginians from tidewater to the mountains brought on the final struggle with France 398, 399
Advance of the French from Lake Erie 399
Washington goes to warn them from encroaching upon English territory 399
MAPS.
Westward Growth of Old Virginia, from a sketch by the author Frontispiece
North Carolina Precincts in 1729, after a map in Hawks's History of North Carolina 276
A Map of ye most Improved Part of Carolina, from Winsor's America, vol. v. p. 351 306
THE IDEA OF GOD AS AFFECTED BY MODERN KNOWLEDGE
By John Fiske
CONTENTS
I. Difficulty of expressing the Idea of God so that it can be readily understood 35
II. The Rapid Growth of Modern Knowledge 46
III. Sources of the Theistic Idea 62
IV. Development of Monotheism 72
V. The Idea of God as immanent in the World 81
VI. The Idea of God as remote from the World 87
VII. Conflict between the Two Ideas, commonly misunderstood as a Conflict between Religion and Science 97
VIII. Anthropomorphic Conceptions of God 111
IX. The Argument from Design 118
X. Simile of the Watch replaced by Simile of the Flower 128
XI. The Craving for a Final Cause 134
XII. Symbolic Conceptions 140
XIII. The Eternal Source of Phenomena 144
XIV. The Power that makes for Righteousness 158