Evening star., 1926-10-16
SECOND PRIZE GRAFTON
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Grating tempest, a towering mountain
that deflowers and annihilates space.
Along the course to Calvary. which he
took in order to redeem his people, are
found great victories and great de-
feats, but all of them creative with
the fecund mystery of faith; Of that
kind Of faith that lights the world
and fills it with apostles, martyrs and
teachers.
Let us not dwell, however, on the
vicissitudes of his power, but rather
on that decisive moment when he
cast upon the IA Spanish banners,
arranged like a tr1umphal arch, the
same magnetic glance which Au-
gereau saw in the eyes of Napoleon
before the Italian victories; the same
epic gesture which Bonaparte immor-
talized in the marshes of Arcola. And
then, too, let us remember his great
ideal-the Congress of Panama, cele-
brated in 1926. which aspired to re-
peat the Corinthian Amphictyony, the
Germanic Confederation. Let US never
forget his dream Of the union of the
American peoples; Of an America,
great, strong and powerful For
while this dream failed of practical
the domain Of culture.
On the shoulders of Europe heavily
rests the burden of a gigantic strug-
gle. Before Europe, PROSTATE every
where, we hear the prophetic cry:
Europe IS on the decline" Whether
true or false, as a fact, it is bio
logically lnescapable. And face to face
with the danger of the Orient, the
younger nations Of the West, created
and inspired by it's ancient mistress.
but now possessing an energy denied
to her, will grasp the torch in the
hope that future Athens may spring
up in our midst
And for this there is a natural rea-
son. Europe, as we'll as other nations,
has fulfilled her historic mission, has
rounded out her character, her per-
sonality and her universal destiny.
Some already belong to yesterday;
others are slipping into twilight But
ours are the nations of the dawn. We
are youthful people struggling for
power and personality and precisely
because we lack these things are we
able to grasp and give new oriental
ton to the lessons Of other nations and
other peoples. We are not Of the
present, but Of the future. Ours is to
be spiritual age, not military or
commercial. Not Carthage, not even
Rome, but a Greece of tomorrow.
For this task there remains a sturdy
race. that is already gathering the
harvest, free from the vice that is
undermining the large modern cities;
that is able to save those worthwhile
things, on the point Of being lost
through the moral upheaval caused by
the war in Europe, which has neither
fundamentally changed the world
situation, nor even prevented the pos
Sibility Of another war.
The lack of prejudice and created
interests will allow our race to achieve
the triumph. not of nationalism, but
of humanity, because the people are
collectively common factors in a COM
mon work.
For this reason we would praise
BoGvar,not only as the liberator, but
as the founder of this sentiment of
spiritual union. For this reason,
whenever we think of him, we affirm
our faith in culture before civilization;
have visions of Greece before Romei
of Don QuiXote before Sancho PanZa;
of Ariel before Caliban, and while we
touch the dust with feathery plume
in the gay and generous spirit of
Cyrano, or link by link we weave the