CHAPTER XVI.

Condition of English Society--Manufacture of Gin and Rum--Origin of Methodism--Eloquence of Whitfield--John and Charles Wesley--Remarkable Teachings--Robert Raikes--John Howard--William Wilberforce--Mechanical Inventions--Growth of American Freedom--Three Great Battles--Cook's Voyages--Extension of the English Language--Greatness of Pitt--Washington's Early Life--Benjamin Franklin.