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Excerpt from Adventures in Bolivia
We know that our own withers are not quite um erring. Thus, by degrees and in the hard school of experience, we are learning not to condemn men who acted by the standards Of their age by our own code. Take both codes away, and drop me an impartial judge down from the moon, he might not find much real difference between the Spaniards Of the age of Charles V and ourselves, the sons Of progress and of light. Still, there are fellows of the baser sort, your piing traveller with his bad jokes, contempt of anything not forged upon his Peck ham anvil, or registered so many degrees north, east or west from the meridian of Balham, with cliches from Old books as if the course Of time changed nothing, and no fresh matter ever came to light, to tell us all the Spanish conquerors were cruel rogues and thieves. He lets us know that in their thirst for gold and zeal for their damned Papism, they exterminated all the Indians, leaving not one alive. He is read, commented on and re viewed by men as ignorant and prejudiced as he himself, and so the ball rolls on, ever increasing like a mass of snow set trundling down a slope.
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