A looming bastion fringed with fire.”
The Spaniard was in Florida.[760] The Dutchman smoked his pipe on the banks of the Hudson.[761] English adventurers held Virginia.[762] The Pilgrims had clutched New England. Labor was vocal on every hill-side; the whole continent began to echo to the civilizing stroke of the woodman’s axe.
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION.
“So work the honey-bees—
Creatures that, by a rule of nature, teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a head and officers of sorts,
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;