Show PUISSANT SPAIN PUERILE SPAIN spain eo so weak impotent puerile at ibe the close of the tle nineteenth century was at one time master of the world no nation of 01 ancient or modern times ruled over a greater stretch of empire with a more powerful uway than did the once majestic spain what it has done for mankind that ia Is worthy remen brance ie is told by a writer in colliers weekly who says it p 0 deuced algebra the tile first clock that struck in europe was a present from the beloved to charlemagne it produced the compete coap aEB it produced gunpowder it waa was a seville that checkers were invented it waa was in the courts of the caliphs that the canons of chivalry were framed from grenada came the dulcimer from cordova thi guitar and from both the Ae serenade renade it was from spain that we got rh rhyme y al e throughout m medieval europe it was the only land that thought it wae was from there that the renaissance emerged emer ced in art science learnine learning and legend its past is glorious el orlou it produced the cid it produced colombas Colum boe bas there was its masterpiece there too the splendor began with which it dazzled the world it strangled Paga paganism nirm but spain today is only great in memory iier her people have been dreaming jig away the days for these many generations until bey they are tea lacking visor vigor mentality and even morality |