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 REAL UTOPIAS OF THE ARID WEST 



"At every new stage of the history of the American settlement, 

 we are afresh reminded that colonies are planted by the uneasy. 

 The discontent that comes from poverty and financial reverse, that 

 which is born of political unrest, and that which has no other cause 

 than feverish thirst for novelty and hazardous adventure, had each 

 a share in impelling Englishmen to emigrate. But in the seven- 

 teenth century religion was the dominant concern one might al- 

 most say the dominant passion of the English race, and it supplied 

 much the most efficient motive to colonization. Not only did it 

 propel men to America, but it acted as a distributing force on this 

 side of the sea, producing secondary colonies by expelling from a 

 new plantation the discontented and the persecuted to make fresh 

 breaks in the wilderness for new settlements." EDWARD EGGLE- 

 STON, Beginners of a Nation. 



