The English Rediscovery And Colonization of America
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script. Alluding to the Icelandic discoveries, he wrote : " But the reason that these and probably earlier discoveries were not more noticed and utilized, was that the need of another continent to conquer and colonize had not arisen, and did not rise until nearly the end of the fifteenth century. " The advent of Luther and the incipient heresy that preceded him led to the restoring of the inquisition in Spain for the suppression of heresy, and also led to the discovery, so called, of America by... Christopher Columbus, the land that was to be made the future and permanent stronghold of the Church of Rome. x The vital and all-absorbing question now is, whether this American Republic, founded on purely secular principles, wishes to pay posthu mous honours, on a scale of unprecedented mag nificence, and at the bidding of the Pope, and the countries under his dominion, Spain, Italy, and the Spanish- American republics, to the Roman Catholic missionary and devotee, Chris topher Columbus, who was sent out by the Church of Rome to convert the natives of a land whose locality he knew, having ascertained it definitely in Iceland before he started forth on his voyage to the western continent ?
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