Excerpt from The English Rediscovery and Colonization of America<br><br>These latter, again, were directly inspired by the knowledge, derived through the English trade with Iceland in the fifteenth century, of the earlier Scandinavian voyages and explorations. England can point to the United States of America as her greatest and proudest work, as much her own creation as Canada, Australia, or South Africa; and this would of itself give her a valid claim to regard the United States as a portion of Greater Britain.<br><br>The two countries, which were severed more than a hundred years ago by the exactions, inter ference, and greed of an English monarch, ought to be reunited by the enlightened minds of the future. With a common language, common ideas, common aims, and their forces united to secure the peace and progress of mankind, the two great powers would form a governing force for the world, leading it on to higher progress, and repressing acts of injustice, wherever perpetrated.<br><br>This is a grand and noble ideal, which fills many an advanced and enlightened English mind but at present the political ambition of the United States is turned in precisely the Opposite direction, being devoted to the task of dominating the entire New World, and shutting out for ever European influence of every description, whether commercial or political.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.