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Title: The history and progress of the world
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907 Lamberton, John Porter, 1839-1917, joint author Morris, Charles, 1833-1922, joint author
Subjects: World history Philosophers Women Statesmen Statesmen Literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, T. Nolan
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most of them prized above all worldly considerations——
religion and religious freedom. Pilgrims and Puritans,
Separatists and Quakers, Huguenots and Roman Catho-
lics, had all come to this country that they mjght have a
place in which to worship God according to the dictates of
their own conscience. Nor were the stout Churchmen,
the first settlers of Virginia, less pronounced in their pro-
fession of faith. When the British colonists began to
realize their actual separation from the mother country,
with all its benefits and privileges, they set themselves
rigorously to work to supply their needs according to their
own estimate of the comparative importance of these. To
obtain a learned and godly ministry seemed a prime neces-
sity. Hence the early establishment of colleges—Har-
vard and Yale in the Seventeenth Century. Though
both bear the name of English benefactors, they really
depended on the support of the colonists themselves. In
loyal Virginia, the ancient William and Mary received
more substantial aid from England and bears the name of

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the sovereigns who granted its charter; yet it has not been
able to survive the vicissitudes of later revolutions.
King's College, founded in New York City, in the same
loyal spirit, afterward entered on a new career as Columbia
College, and has commenced a still more promising era as
Columbia University. Dartmouth, near the northern
frontier of New Hampshire, was a missionary enterprise,
intended to benefit Indians as well as whites, but found
its work practically confined to the latter. Princeton, in
New Jersey, and Brown at Providence, Rhode Island,
depended on denominational support, the former from
Presbyterians, the latter from Baptists. The University
of Pennsylvania is the outgrowth of one of the numerous
proposals of Benjamin Franklin for the benefit of his fel-
low citizens of Philadelphia. In all of these educational
institutions a large majority of the graduates before the
Nineteenth Century became ministers in various churches
The intellectual activity aroused in the colonies was chiefly

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