TRADERS AND SETTLERS 31

hatred of tyranny, the disposition to domineer,
aggressiveness, greediness, inquisitiveness, inso-
lence, the love of science, of liberty, and of money."
As the state is only a sum of component parts, its
qualities must be those of its citizens, and of these
citizens our colonists were undoubtedly typical.
We may therefore accept this description as pic-
turing their mental and spiritual qualities in the
pioneer days of their venture in the New World.