Ariel (Classic Reprint)

Sfe ENRIQUE RODd ica of the South to the newer, Saxon civilization of the North; it has been therefore a grateful task for a representative of the latter to essay its translation, with a hope of saving something of the beauty of the original. For A riel is a thing oibeautyy first of all; its learning, if not its teaching, might be gleaned from other books. South America believes, with many of us, that in the ideals of America rest the hope of the world. And in this all-A merican mission. South America has its share. The Saxon gift to the worlds civilization was liberty; the Roman, was law; the one excels in applied science, the other in the Art of Life; and both, in A merica, are dreaming of a world where there is no war. But South A merica, in an age of brute conflict, a time of chemistry and of machines, when the flood of materialism seemed about to overcome the finer work of civilization, has, by its very remoteness, its very backwardness, been held aloof.
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