That such subsidizing is in the long run an injury is a lesson illustrated not only in this case, but in many parallel cases in the course of this history.

A far more dreadful wrong was the identifying of the religion of Jesus Christ with a system of war and slavery, well-nigh the most atrocious in recorded history.

For such a policy the Spanish nation had just received a peculiar training.

It is one of the commonplaces of history to remark that the barbarian invaders of the Roman empire were themselves vanquished by their own victims, being converted by them to the Christian faith.

In like manner the Spanish nation, triumphing over its Moslem subjects in the expulsion of the Moors, seemed in its American conquests to have been converted to the worst of the tenets of Islam.