In science, too, there was promise of revolution.
Harvey--not that Governor Harvey of Virginia, but a greater in England was writing upon the circulation of the blood.

Galileo brooded over ideas of the movement of the earth; Kepler, over celestial harmonies and solar rule.

Descartes was laying the foundation of a new philosophy.
In the meantime, far across the Atlantic, bands of Virginians went out against the Indians--who might, or might not, God knows! have put in a claim to be considered among the oppressed peoples.

In Virginia the fat, black, tobacco-fields, steaming under a sun like the sun of Spain, called for and got more labor and still more labor.

Every little sailing ship brought white workmen--called servants--consigned, indentured, apprenticed to many-acred planters.