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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]
> >
> > VH> Very likely, particularly when stood against the earlier failure at
> > Roanoak.
> > >
>  True.  But I had more in mind how there were ominous
>  signs in the later years of James I of the bitter factional
>  strife and Civil War which wrecked the reign of Charles I.
>  Internal strife, civil war, and the dictatorship of Oliver
>  Cromwell might have delayed any further attempts of
>  founding a colony until the Restoration had Jamestown
>  failed.

The United States is like a child whose mother was at the verge of
miscarriage for nine months -- it's a miracle we're here.
>
>
>  True.  I recall how De Las Casas at first encouraged
>  slavery as a humanitarian measure.  Fortunately,
>  the bishop soon regretted doing that.  But, I agree
>  that, with or without De Las Casas, slavery was
>  almost inevitable.

True.  It had to come about.
> >
> > VH> But Elizabeth was far too amoral to think much of promises.
> > > >
>  Too true!  And Elizabeth is an interestingly ambigous
>  personality.  In some ways she seemed to have been
>  at heart more Catholic than Protestant.  Really hard
>  line Prots found her very unsatisfactory!

In a different age, Elizabeth would have been a serial killer -- she was a
true sociopath.
>


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