Capitolo 8
I enliven face to west that establishes the European in that a lot of archipelago
Cristoforo Colombo failed to arrive. The ways of Providence certainly are not less
unusual that slow in movement.
But the year that ends only really it was one than surprises,--for the
historical student is able, indeed you/he/she seems, as if 1898 were destined
you pass in the long record as almost the year of Surprises. We now come
to the consideration of some of these completely unexpected results from
the American point of view. It is in to enter on this aspect of the
you question, once more it is necessary to remember her/it to that we am doing him/it
in the historical spirit, and from the historical point of view. We am
done what they affirm for not leaving entrance to refusal. The matter and
inferences to be deduced by those facts don't belong to this occasion.
Some will reach to a conclusion as the future, and the to bear those
done they have on his/her probable development, and some will arrive another
conclusion; with these conclusions we don't have anything to do. Our business
it is exclusively with the facts.
Greatly speaking, but he/she anchors with historical accuracy and entirely necessary,
America has been peopled and his/her development, above to the present time,
worked out through two great escorts of the European family,--the
Escort of Spanish language and the English-speaking escort. In them
I develop these two you/they have undertaken lines, clearly marked, but curiously
divergent. Leaving out the branch Of Spanish language some discussion, as
not necessary to him, it is able without the exaggeration is said of the
English-speaking branch that, from the beginning down to this year now
ending, its development has been a long protest against, and
divergence from, the Old methods of World and ideals. In the case of those
come down by the Forefathers,--as we always designate the Plymouth
colony,--this has been more separately marked, ethnically, politically,