HISTORY, Tue splendour of the R period was largely due w discovery of a new Contin. men of the time it was as thea mist had suddenly rolled ans the sun sparkled upon new and lands. The immediate was a succession of bold eagheng They left England with enthusiastic courage, thir of trembling eagerly in the of breeze, and swelling provi first touch of ocean winds, "4s ships grew small and sank sight, those who stood, st their eyes, on the quay, home to wait and wonder, Inst, the ships came bad. sailors tanned and rich; and of adventure ran through countryside. Gradually all were stirred by the magic lands, the colonial movement and grew and the best energy succeeding generations were ed to the foundation of enjin Imagination soon responds new impulse was given to poy and anew field opened tot For a long time romance exes a potent influence, an infor which it can never entirely but which has already change it character. For imagination ing to respond to the appeal travel; distant lands are fas sit their glamour. In the first travel is daily becoming whilst, in the second, condition life steel ima those with—whi familiar at home. ere phrase increased facilityotoan vantages are summed up nication", it mast be a matte I regret that imagination shoal losing. so large yon former playground. eli ime. may be apprecing haps, only temporary, imagination will bloom antly in the conception of world freed from dissonant from such a culmination ami intervening period must affected by the separation fi
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