But no colony of all the thirteen had a more distinctly Christian origin than this.
The foundations of other American commonwealths had been laid in faith and hope, but the ruling motive of the founding of Georgia was charity, and that is the greatest of these three.

The spirit which dominated in the measures taken for the beginning of the enterprise was embodied in one of the most interesting personages of the dreary eighteenth century--General James Oglethorpe.

His eventful life covered the greater part of the eighteenth century, but in some of the leading traits of his character and incidents of his career he was rather a man of the nineteenth.

At the age of twenty-one he was already a veteran of the army of Prince Eugene, having served with honorable distinction on the staff of that great commander.

Returning to England, in 1722 he entered Parliament, and soon attained what in that age was the almost solitary distinction of a social reformer.