Conference On the Contribution of the Romance Nations to the History of America
Conference On the Contribution of the Romance Nations to the History of America
William R William Robert Shepherd
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It deserves attention as a striking instance of what a nation can accomplish as long as it believes in its invincibility. Acting on this belief, Portugal, within a single century, produced discoverers, explorers, and navigators of the very first rank, acquired a world-wide empire, developed the arts and sciences to an astonishing degree, and to crown all, brought into being one of the most supremely gifted poets the world has ever seen. Her method of colonizing Brazil anticipates in a striking ...manner the excellent work of the English in the same direction a century later. Her colonists were industrious, frugal cultivators of the soil, and she allowed them in considerable measure the necessary liberty to take root and develop in new and strange sur roundings. A comparative study of her dependencies in Asia and America furnishes a brilliant example of the truth that possessions, won and held by force of arms, are only of fictitious advantage and transient value, while colonies, the pros perity of which rests on stout hearts and industrious hands, are of lasting benefit to the mother country a lesson that is especially significant for Ameri cans to-day.
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