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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE ENGLISH GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES Op the many events that happened on this continent only those are a part of the history of the United States which vitally influenced the fortunes of the people who ratified the Constitution at the end of the eighteenth century, and who have since, by the friction and strife of a century's earnest endeavor, at last welded themselves into a nation, possessed of unity of language, laws, and ideals, and whose advanced corporate consciousness entitles it to the respect and admiration of the world. During the colonial period the elements of this nation were brought into a wilderness; the Revolution separated those elements from England and left them to forge themselves into a nation without European interference; the history of the country since 1789 is the story of fusing and welding discordant political and economic interests into unity. The Civil War completed the nation whose first elements came hither in the Susan Constant and the Mayflower. The genesis of the United States consists, then, of those things which made it possible for Englishmen to come to America; of those things which made them willing or anxious to come; and of those things which made it possible for them to stay. The present United States was made possible by the victory of the English fleet over the Spanish Armada at Gravelines in July 1588. The victory was itself the product of the genius of the English race for naval architecture and the legitimate result of the development of a new type of fighting ship that could sail as well as fight. The Channel pirates and the daring voyages of Hawkins and Drake to the Spanish Main gave the men of the English South Coast a knowledgeof seamanship, a reckless courage, and a contempt for Spaniards. But after all the fact ...