The institution of a college of heralds and the fecial law, were proofs of a people considerably advanced in the cultivation of the law of nations as a science; and yet with what little attention they were accustomed to listen to the voice of justice and humanity, […]

After this long windup, Smith says, “Is there a question there, your honor?” He says it not in an evasive way, but with a smile.

And forasmuch as the Chowan Indians having their hunting quarters upon some of your petitioners lands aforesaid therfore doe pretend the said lands to be theirs not withstanding the patents and grants aforesaid in making and threatening your Honrs petrs by destroying their Stocks burneing their houses and other hostilities under pretence they are under your Honrs protection and no Englishman ought to Seate within four miles of the towne, the which your Honrs petitionrs well knowing that by an order of the Honourable Councill no Seatment ought to be made within the space of four miles aforesaid any wise to the prejudice of the said Indians neither that your Honrs petitionrs taken up any Land witingly within that distance yet to continue peace and tranquility with the said Indians yor Honrs petitionrs hath offered to purchass their right if any to the land held as aforesd by yor Honrs petrs which they refuse and denyeth any Seatement to be made thereon for prevention whereof and that yor Honrs petitionrs May have a peaceable enjoyment in their and every of their aforesd lands humbly implores that the said ndians land may be laid out to them according to the aforesaid order of Councill.

But, more properly, what a work of art possesses is balance, a bringing together and harmonizing of various dynamicisms.