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Excerpt from In the Days of Drake
There is the awful feud 'twixt England, the modern spirit making toward progress and civilization, and Spain, the well-nigh worn-out retrogressive force that would dam the river of human thought. There is the spectacle of the Armada, baf?ed and beaten, and of the English war-ships un der men like Drake and Frobisher, drop ping like avenging angels upon some Spanish port and working havoc on the Spanish treasure galleons. There, too, are the figures of men like Grenville and Raleigh, born adventurers, leaders of men, who knew how to die as bravely and fear lessly as they had lived. And beyond all the glory and adventure there looms in the background of the picture the black cruel ties of Spain, practiced in the dark corners of the earth, against which the English spirit of that day never ceased from pro testing with speech and sword. It was well for the world that in that fierce con test England triumphed. Had Spain suc.
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