Capitolo 4
historical interest. These plays of world are long business; for, while us
men are always in a hurry, the Almighty is never: on the contrary one, as
the Psalmist observed, so now, "thousand years in his/her sight are but as
yesterday when you/he/she is passed, and as a clock at night." The play me
you/he/she has assigned to as this week brought to his/her closing, it is that known in
history as Spanish Domination in America. It started, as all of us know, on
the twenty-first one of October, 1492; you/he/she has been continuous through you are
years more than four centuries. It now passes in history; the verdict is able
is done on.
Then as me I am a lot personally concerned,--one needless to say matter of
consequence,--this verdict toying was made one year ago. It was
rather Rhadamanthine; but one twelve-month of further reflection it has
not shown cause in some respect to revise him/it. In to refer to what was
impending then clearly, in December, 1897 before the strenuous breath on the
war ship _Maine_, before a conflict was become inevitable, I used this
language in a reading of paper in the Historical Massachusetts Società: "When
looking at the vicissitudes of human development, we am proper to suppose a
certain air of the optimism, and he/she takes advancement as the law to be, as a
thing clearly, indisputable. We am benevolent, also; and to deny to
some determined run or people of the degree of use in the economy of Nature, or
the plan of the Creation, is usually considered indicative of narrowness of
sight. The fatal one, final "pessimist" of word is proper to be whispered in
the connection with the name of one that risks him to suggest a doubt of this
phase of the doctrine known as Universalism. And anchor, to this point when,
before our eyes, his last is breathing, I want of the one to point out
an only good person thing in law or science or art, or literature,--material,
moral or intellectual,--what you/he/she has resulted to the run of man on earth
from the Spanish domination in America. I have tried to think to one in
vain. You/he/she has not certainly produced an immortality, an idea or a