These circumstances caused such a migration to America that by 1770 it amounted to more than half a million souls 394 Many Scotch-Irish settled in the Shenandoah Valley, and were closely followed by Germans 395 This Shenandoah population exerted a most powerful democratizing influence upon the colony 396 Jefferson found in them his most powerful supporters 396 Lord Fairfax's home at Greenway Court; Fairfax's affection for Washington 397 How the surveying of Fairfax's frontier estates led Washington on to his public career 398 The advance of Virginians from tidewater to the mountains brought on the final struggle with France 398, 399 Advance of the French from Lake Erie 399 Washington goes to warn them from encroaching upon English territory 399 MAPS. Westward Growth of Old Virginia, from a sketch by the author Frontispiece North Carolina Precincts in 1729, after a map in Hawks's History of North Carolina 276 A Map of ye most Improved Part of Carolina, from Winsor's America, vol. v. p. 351 306 THE IDEA OF GOD AS AFFECTED BY MODERN KNOWLEDGE By John Fiske CONTENTS I. Difficulty of expressing the Idea of God so that it can be readily understood 35 II. The Rapid Growth of Modern Knowledge 46 III. Sources of the Theistic Idea 62 IV. Development of Monotheism 72 V. The Idea of God as immanent in the World 81 VI. The Idea of God as remote from the World 87 VII. Conflict between the Two Ideas, commonly misunderstood as a Conflict between Religion and Science 97 VIII. Anthropomorphic Conceptions of God 111 IX. The Argument from Design 118 X. Simile of the Watch replaced by Simile of the Flower 128 XI. The Craving for a Final Cause 134 XII. Symbolic Conceptions 140 XIII. The Eternal Source of Phenomena 144 XIV. The Power that makes for Righteousness 158 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Fiske, by John Fiske