The Burton Holmes lectures; . in holding Spain to bethe sole stage on which the Moors appropriately can playtheir parts ? Morocco was their home ere Spain was conquered forthem. When Andalusia ungratefully cast out the race thatbrought it light and knowledge at a time when Europe gropedin the blackness of deep ignorance, back to Morocco wentthe Empire of the Moors. Empires rise and fall. TheMoorish Empire rose but did not fall ; it was shaken but notshattered ; it is still erect. It stands a living skeleton wraptin the shroud of Islam, its hollowness concealed by the vaguefolds of ceremonial o
The Burton Holmes lectures; . in holding Spain to bethe sole stage on which the Moors appropriately can playtheir parts ? Morocco was their home ere Spain was conquered forthem. When Andalusia ungratefully cast out the race thatbrought it light and knowledge at a time when Europe gropedin the blackness of deep ignorance, back to Morocco wentthe Empire of the Moors. Empires rise and fall. TheMoorish Empire rose but did not fall ; it was shaken but notshattered ; it is still erect. It stands a living skeleton wraptin the shroud of Islam, its hollowness concealed by the vaguefolds of ceremonial observances ; itsgovernment a pompous sham ; its citiesempty imposing shells of former great-ness ; its boundless plains the hauntsof savage Berber tribes to whom theEmperor is but a name, the Empire afree space in whichto ride broad-chest-ed chargers and dobattle with heredi-tary enemies. In two precedinglectures I have toldthe story of a jour-ney into Morocco,and of a sojourn in ON THK ROAD TO MEQUINEZ FcZ, tile UletrOpoliS.
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