They had almost no manufactures.

They had no imposing state system with places and pensions from which the fortunate might reap a harvest of ten or even twenty thousand pounds a year.

They had no ancient universities thronged by gilded youth who, if noble, might secure degrees without the trying ceremony of an examination.

They had no Established Church with the ancient glories of its cathedrals.

In all America there was not even a bishop.