lives in America than were caused by war and all bad laws combined. It was therefore gold-seekers who were sent to Virginia,1 men without wealth or standards whose restless, turbulent temper endangered the infant colony2 and made its progress vacillating. Craftsmen and farm laborers came later; they were quieter folk with better morals, but there was hardly any respect in which they rose above the level of the English lower classes.3 No noble thought or conception above gain presided over the foundation