The world: historical and actual . f-2— :HUS far in the history ofthe world the ouly conti-nental portion of Americareally known to Columbushas contributed very littleto the benefit of mankind,and is still a land of greatpossibilities, rather thanactual achievement. Until a com-paratively recent period the entirecontinent of South America, so faras it was inhabited by civilizedman, was under the colonial yoke,and that not of liberal and progres-r*> sive England, but of narrow andrejffessive Spain and Portugal. Al-most at the same time that Mexicobecame independent the colonies ofSpain farth
The world: historical and actual . f-2— :HUS far in the history ofthe world the ouly conti-nental portion of Americareally known to Columbushas contributed very littleto the benefit of mankind,and is still a land of greatpossibilities, rather thanactual achievement. Until a com-paratively recent period the entirecontinent of South America, so faras it was inhabited by civilizedman, was under the colonial yoke,and that not of liberal and progres-r*> sive England, but of narrow andrejffessive Spain and Portugal. Al-most at the same time that Mexicobecame independent the colonies ofSpain farther south broke their chains, and Portu-gals one dependency, Brazil, changed from a colonyto an empire. Columbus lauded at the mouth of theOrinoco river, Venezuela, in 1498, taking possessionof the continent in the name of his august sover-eigns, Ferdinand and Isabella. That was the shadow.
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