Excerpt from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 1922, Vol. 4 It is worth while to. Recall that Raleigh thoroughly understood the principles of self-government, often erroneously described as modern. The word nation is now use-d with various and vague: meanings. Raleigh used the word with a precise meaning when he expressed the belief that he would live to see: Virginia become an English nation. If it is not now an English nation, it is an influential part of a great English-speaking nation - the United States of America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.