'THE 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Vol. XI JULY, 1900 No. 7 



THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND 



By Edwix D. :\rK ad, LL.D., 



Editor of Oie Neiv Enghmd MagazUie 



The name and fame of Sir ^^'alter Raleigh are perpetuated in tlie 

 name of tlie (•ai)ital of one of our states — a state wliich I wish bore the 

 name of Roanoke instead of North Carolina, that a double historical 

 lesson might he taught. I wish that tliere might stand in the center 

 of the city of Raleigh, wdiich per[)etuates this historic name, a worthy 

 monument to the great movement for the English colonization of 

 America. The central figure of that monument would l)e Sir Walter 

 Raleigh. At Worms, on the ])anlvs of the Rhine, where Luther made 

 his great ]>rotest against the Empii-e and the Church, is that greatest 

 and most distinguished of all monuments, as it seems tome. The 

 figure of the great reformer is surrounded bj' the ft)rms of AN'yclif, 

 Savonarola. Huss, Melancthon, the Elector, and the various men who, 

 in the political and intellectual advances of the time, and the preced- 

 ing time, were cooperators with him in that great nu)vemeut which we 

 call the Reformation ; so I wish that tliis great movement for the col- 

 onization of the New World l)v our Englisli race, one of tlie most 

 momentous chaj)ters in history, might have a similar commemoiation. 

 Surrounding the central figure of Sir Walter IJaleigh should be Drake, 

 Hawkins, Frobisher, Davis. Capt. .loliii Sniitb. liaitlmlonu'W Ciosnold, 

 and dear Ricliard Hakluyt. 



In that notable time there is no figure so romantic as his. 'i'licre 

 was no other mind so generous and so ca|>abl(', of so great compre- 

 hension and scope, as his, concerning the ojiening of this New World. 

 He it was who, in the pres.sure ansi the; dangers of that time, most 

 clearly discerned that it was from America that Spniii derived so 



