...proprietor of a large tract in Shenandoah valley, eighty years ago, wrote of the new country as follows : " I thank God there are no free schools nor printing,...and I hope we shall not have these hundred years, for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged...

...Berkeley, of Va., was an early representative, who, in 1671, said, in a report to the Privy Councils, "I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing,...and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged...

...being known the world over as the land of schoolmasters. The Governor of the other colony replied, "I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing,...and I hope we shall not have these hundred years." To this policy she also has only too faithfully adhered. Now what is the result? By referring to the...

...best he can :"— no aid was afforded them by those in authority. Says the aristocratic Berkeley : " I thank God there are no free schools nor printing ; and I hope we will not have CHAP. them these hundred years ! " Such was the language of __ a man who was Governor...

...ruling classes was the famous remark of the royal governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley: "But, I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these for a hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and...

...colony governor reported to the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations that education languished. "But, I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these for a hundred years," Berkeley wrote, "for learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects...

...Virginia Governor Berkeley applauded the absence of printing presses in his colony: "I thank God. we have no free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these [fora] hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world; and...

...governments felt insecure. One recalls the remark of Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, in 1671: "I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing,...and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged...

...expressed deep-seated anxieties about the impact of the press. "I thank God, there are no freeschools, nor printing; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years," Virginia's governor, William Berkeley, reported to his London superiors in 1671. "For learning has...

...1909): 137. Governor Berkeley of Virginia wrote his superiors in 1671: "But, I thank God, we have not free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world; and printing has divulged...