"Each man," says Goethe, "is led and misled after a fashion peculiar to himself." So with those mass persons called countries.

Tension would come about, tension would relax, tension would return and increase between Mother England and Daughter America.

In all these colonies, in the year with which this narrative closes, there were living children and young persons who would see the cord between broken, would hear read the Declaration of Independence.

So--but the true bond could never be broken, for mother and daughter after all are one.
THE NAVIGATION LAWS Three acts of Parliament--the Navigation Act of 1660, the Staple Act of 1663, and the Act of 1673 imposing Plantation Duties--laid the foundation of the old colonial system of Great Britain.

Contrary to the somewhat passionate contentions of older historians, they were not designed in any tyrannical spirit, though they embodied a theory of colonization and trade which has long since been discarded.