. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. re is even mention of title-deeds which tell of one whoheld land here in the days of the Caliph Omar II., when heruled as Governor of Narbonne. There is one pre-eminent reason for the abiding recollectionof the Mussulman that pervades the country. The SaracenPeriod stands for the conflict of two widely divergentcivilizations, for the epic contest of Christianity with prefer to think of their victories rather than of theirdefeats; and though the Mussulman humbled the ancestorsof the Catalans to
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. re is even mention of title-deeds which tell of one whoheld land here in the days of the Caliph Omar II., when heruled as Governor of Narbonne. There is one pre-eminent reason for the abiding recollectionof the Mussulman that pervades the country. The SaracenPeriod stands for the conflict of two widely divergentcivilizations, for the epic contest of Christianity with prefer to think of their victories rather than of theirdefeats; and though the Mussulman humbled the ancestorsof the Catalans to dust, he was beaten in the end. ThePyrenees became a great outpost of Christendom, andacross them, as from the sallying port of a fortress, advancedthe avenging armies of Charlemagne. No subsequent vicis-situde—and there have been many—has affected the perma-nence and continuity of this change in the history of the was sudden and swift and splendid, and not like theslow passing of Rome, and its memory will last as long asChristianity survives as the religion of this JAC^tH^-B .-^^J^
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