ere two other ancestors ruled.
Every coping stone and pillar cost some mariner of the Tarifa Straits a
pot of money.

Its owner is a pauper. A carekeeper shows it for a peseta a head. To
such base uses may we come at last. Yet Seville basks in the sun and
smiles on the flashing waters of the Guadalquivir, and Cadiz sits serene
upon the green hillsides of San Sebastian, just as if nothing had ever
happened; neither the Barber and Carmen, nor Nelson and Byron; the past
but a phantom; the present the prosiest of prose-poems.

There are canny Spaniards even as there are canny Scots, who grow rich
and prosper; but there is never a Spaniard who does not regard the
political fabric, and the laws, as fair game, the rule being always
"devil take the hindmost," community of interests nowhere. "The good old
vices of Spain," that is, the robbing of the lesser rogue by the greater
in regulated gradations all the way from the King to the beggar, are
as prevalent and as vital as ever they were. Curiously enough, a tiny
stream of Hebraic blood and Moorish blood still trickles through the
Spanish coast towns. It may be traced through the nomenclature in spite
of its Castilian prefigurations and appendices, which would account for
some of the enterprise and activity that show themselves, albeit only by
fits and starts.

Chapter the Thirtieth

The Makers of the Republic--Lincoln, Jefferson, Clay and Webster--The
Proposed League of Nations--The Wilsonian Incertitude--The "New
Freedom"

I

The makers of the American Republic range themselves in two
groups--Washington, Franklin and Jefferson--Clay, Webster and
Lincoln--each of whom, having a genius peculiarly his own, gave himself
and his best to the cause of national unity and independence.

In a general way it may be said that Washington created and Lincoln
saved the Union. But along with Washington and Lincoln, Clay makes a
good historic third, for it was the masterful Kentuckian who, joining
rare foresight to surpassing eloquence and leading many eminent men,
including Webster, was able to hold the legions of unrest at bay during
the formative period.

There are those who call these great men "back numbers," who tell us we
have left the past behind us and entered an epoch of more enlightened
progress--who would displace the example of the simple lives they led
and the homely truths they told, to set up a school of philosophy which
had made Athens stare