The Land of the Castanet Spanish Sketches
The Land of the Castanet Spanish Sketches
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However, after witnessing a pelota match one feels it is a game the Spaniards may well be proud of. It is a genuine sport, and one's hope is that its growth may eventually redeem the country from the curse of bull-fights and cocking mains. A nation's sports are largely typical of its character, and a people capable of tolerating bull fighting is incapable of civilization in its highest sense. Cordova the Magnificent /CORDOVA the Magnificent, the seat \^s of Arab learning, the birthplace of Sene...ca, Lucan and Averroes, the splendid capital of the Omeyan Khali- fate, with her six hundred mosques and thousand baths, her eight hundred pub- lic schools and library of over half a million volumes; Cordova the single shrine where the light of learning glowed during the dark Middle Ages, is to-day a sluggish sun-baked remnant of all that has gone before. Christian bells clang in the Muezzin tower of Islam's fairest mosque, Christian priests mumble their prayers where the Moslem once turned his face to Mecca ; but the city is a city of the dead, and the inhabitants are ghouls, if ghouls can be sluggish and ambitionless, for the little vitality they 136 Cordova the Magnificent have is drawn from the souls of the de- parted.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
However, after witnessing a pelota match one feels it is a game the Spaniards may well be proud of. It is a genuine sport, and one's hope is that its growth may eventually redeem the country from the curse of bull-fights and cocking mains. A nation's sports are largely typical of its character, and a people capable of tolerating bull fighting is incapable of civilization in its highest sense. Cordova the Magnificent /CORDOVA the Magnificent, the seat \^s of Arab learning, the birthplace of Sene...ca, Lucan and Averroes, the splendid capital of the Omeyan Khali- fate, with her six hundred mosques and thousand baths, her eight hundred pub- lic schools and library of over half a million volumes; Cordova the single shrine where the light of learning glowed during the dark Middle Ages, is to-day a sluggish sun-baked remnant of all that has gone before. Christian bells clang in the Muezzin tower of Islam's fairest mosque, Christian priests mumble their prayers where the Moslem once turned his face to Mecca ; but the city is a city of the dead, and the inhabitants are ghouls, if ghouls can be sluggish and ambitionless, for the little vitality they 136 Cordova the Magnificent have is drawn from the souls of the de- parted.
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