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and have risen to the old level of the Tiglaths and the Amenophids in 
Assyria and Egypt, but the Spaniard was not altogether to blame. 
United they could have swept him and all other invaders back into the 
ocean by overwhelming force of numbers and by undoubted courage. 
Their own dissensions slew them ; the same internecine strife that drove 
them across the Pacific, living in their souls as an endless vendetta, 
made them an easy prey. Now, doubtless, the negro considers himself 
better than an Indian, but the Indian, at least he of northern Turanian 
parentage, is a gentleman, an aristocrat, fallen though his fortunes may 
be. The Norman Conquest, Imperial Rome, and even the eponyms of 
Tsrael’s tribes, are modern to him who traces his ancestry to a time when 
the pyramids of Egypt were yet unbuilt. The Indian belongs to a senile 
race ; he has reached his second childhood. 
