Download or read book Enterprise Beyond the Seas, Or How Great Colonies Were Founded (Classic Reprint) written by J. Hamilton Fyfe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Enterprise Beyond the Seas, or How Great Colonies Were Founded British colonization in some of its social and romantic aspects. It does not trench on questions of politics or economy, - it avoids statistics. It does not treat of all of our colonies. It traces the career only of those which bear a sort of representative character, and only up to the point when the growing plantation subsides into a settled province. The events herein recorded are deeply interesting in themselves, and become still more so when they are connected with the prosperity of our empire and the spread of civilization and Christianity. They also possess another interest for the reflective reader. It has been remarked that it is a peculiarity of a great and conquering people, that they find themselves at the same time, though in different regions, in all the various stages through which societies must pass between their birth and their destruction. Thus, in Vancouver's Island and Columbia the British race may be said to be in vigorous infancy; in Australia, in early youth; in Canada, in all the vigour of manhood in the United States, energetic, progressive, triumphant; and in Great Britain, in robust middle age. A general survey of our colonial annals may thus be as useful as a course of universal history, and may serve to illustrate, in a striking manner, the causes of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.