How to Survive in the Roanoke Colony

The blueprints for the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering were drawn in that way.

Other colleges like philosophy and linguistics were also taking shape, thanks to prestigious exiles from England. Thanks to them, the comprehensive university should be well-rounded.

The vineyard keepers bustled about, running east and west, saying they were less worried about successors, and people murmured with curiosity about the identity of the university that an angel was going to build directly on their island.

And I...

'This is not enough.'

I realized this couldn't be all.

Why was the knowledge taught in medieval universities so impractical?

It's because it was a space to fill the culture of free people. So I changed it to a space for cultivating specialists.

But is that all?

No.

Running for the sake of culture simply means running for honor and self-satisfaction.

Even with patronage, it was for someone else's honor or intellectual pleasure, not for society's needs.

So even in medieval universities, studies or technologies that could practically enhance society's industrial capabilities didn't develop; rather, academic development followed someone's intellectual pleasure or, at best, political necessity.

Remember modern society. Those numerous research institutes, and the research conducted there, didn't run automatically on their own.

Most significantly, the state leads the direction. It conducts national projects, sponsors various related research, and ensures they can help national power.

I can do the same. No, I've been doing so all along.

Because I requested it, the vineyard keepers worked so hard to preserve various varieties and attempted to improve seeds.

I can lead technological development in areas that interest me.

However.

'I can't be interested in all fields.'

That's the same for modern nation-states. The world is too large and complex for someone to adjust and move the direction of scholarship one by one.

I lived in a capitalist society. And in the society I lived in, the role of reflecting such social demands on scholarship was...

'Taken by corporations.'

I decided.

Designing the academic system and curricula for each discipline is not all I need to do.

I temporarily left Croatoan Island.

And.

"Na-Nameless One. How did you come to such a place..."

"Nice to meet you. Are you the abbot of this monastery?"

"Let's, let's get inside first."

I visited the industrial monastery in Chesapeake.

==

There was only one tractor factory in Chesapeake.

The largest factory in Chesapeake, built at Nemo's request to various craftsmen.

Other factories lined up around it were also places that supplied various parts, materials, and tools to the central tractor factory.

This could be called Virginia's first heavy industry complex.

As such, among these factories, several modest yet dignified fortress-like buildings were situated, all of which were monasteries.

When Nemo, who entered through them, reached the largest tractor monastery, someone directly opened the monastery door to welcome him.

"Nice to meet you. Are you the abbot of this monastery?"

"Let's, let's get inside first."

The man was quite flustered. He didn't know Nemo would suddenly visit this place without prior notice.

This was a monastery with a structure similar to European ones, consisting of communal housing and dining facilities for monastic order members.

Nemo looked around slowly as if to observe it, and others gathered in crowds, bustling to have an audience with Nemo.

Of course, the similarity to European monastic orders was only in this outward appearance.

The monastics here were mixed without regard to gender, and many were married. Although they lived somewhat ascetically and regularly, they still fell short compared to European monasteries.

However, as they were continuing communal living, which was rare among Virginia's monastic orders, this could be said to be relatively close to the original form of a monastic order.

The man guided Nemo to a reception room and handed him a simple drink. Taking advantage of the moment Nemo drank it, the man sorted out his complicated thoughts.

"I have a proposal for the abbot of the tractor monastery."

And Nemo speaks. The man bowed his head and answered:

"No, a proposal, you say? Whatever you command, if I call some workers and say that you personally requested something, everyone will work hard to..."

"No. This must be a proposal."

The confused abbot briefly looked at Kin Issei's face... then tilts his head and asks:

"What is it that makes you say so?"

Then Kin Issei speaks again:

"This should not be accomplished by my individual commands. Because this must be something accomplished by your strength and will."

"..."

"It should not be something that ceases without the command of a high person, but something that you must continuously accomplish by your own will."

"What... is it?"

To the abbot's question, Kin Issei answered:

"For the monastery, for the monastic order to grow larger and stronger, it seems anyone should be able to participate in the work without difficulty."

It was a monastic order for him.

Isn't this Virginia's monastic order created to allow everyone to enjoy sacred daily life through labor?

Therefore, for the monastic order's influence to become more powerful, higher levels of mechanization and division of labor must accompany it.

Of course, the tractor monastic order is mostly a respected organization. Because those who take on difficult and specialized work are gathered.

However, as the specialization of that work increases, the actual influence of the monastic order becomes limited.

So Kin Issei proposed:

"The soon-to-be-established College of Engineering will help you. Consult with the factory owners."

Then the university would fulfill their expansion desires.

For the leaders of the monastic order, an opportunity to spread this pious and holy labor more widely.

For factory owners, it would guarantee larger factories and more profits.

"Then..."

"Yes. Request that the university help with your business."

Thus, the first research request arrives for a university that hasn't even been established yet.

==

A university connected to industrial monastic orders, pursuing more practical scholarship.

It wasn't just science and engineering disciplines at "Croatoan University" that pursued such aims.

In this era, and especially in the newly structured Continental Covenant, law, theology, philosophy, and political science could also be sufficiently practical.

"Regarding what Thomas Aquinas said in the 'Summa Theologica,' Calvin said this. Today, let's discuss this proposition."

Especially in theology, since the Nameless Church didn't have particularly sophisticated doctrines, lectures continued comparing doctrines of each denomination, even including those of Islam and Judaism.

"As the Catholic Church refined its doctrines through the Council of Trent, critical differences in the doctrine of the communion of saints..."

"In the Lutheran Church, there are also accusations that Calvinists have doctrines similar to Islam."

It could be seen as content similar to the more modern comparative religious studies.

"...And, this is the current situation in England."

However, this is an era where barely 100 years have passed since the Reformation.

The doctrines and relationships of each denomination were constantly alive and changing. Naturally, consideration of modern political and religious situations was inevitable.

Therefore, the content taught in the theology college naturally included extensive information about current European affairs.

There, a professor from England who had fled to the Covenant to escape chaos said:

"Now, in England, the atmosphere is ominous whether among Catholics or Protestants."

England's Catholics were gradually taking the path of radicalization after persecution, and the Protestant side was also gradually becoming extreme due to the aftermath of a war that ended ambiguously and meanly despite numerous victories.

Gradually.

"We don't yet know how the intensification of their relationship will lead England's politics where, and how it will shake the religious fervor of all Europe.

However, hostility toward each other is increasingly deepening..."

The professor, who had experienced terrorism by Catholics, spoke with a trembling voice.

"...All of Europe seems about to explode soon."