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" It is but a thing of yesterday. During the thousand years which went before the opening of this era of European supremacy, the attitude of Asia and Africa, of Hun and Mongol, Turk and Tartar, Arab and Moor, had on the whole been that of successful aggression... "
History as literature and other essays - Page 77
by Theodore Roosevelt - 1913 - 310 pages
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New Outlook, Volume 95

1910 - 1076 pages
...Moor, had on the whole been that of successful aggression against Europe. More than a century passed after the voyages of Columbus before the mastery in...The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined by...
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African and European Addresses

Theodore Roosevelt, Lawrence Fraser Abbott - Political science - 1910 - 312 pages
...tongue. The phenomena of national growth and decay, both of those which can and those which cannot be explained, have been peculiarly in evidence during...The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined by...
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Biological Analogies in History

Theodore Roosevelt - Biology - 1910 - 56 pages
...of tongue. The phenomena of national growth and decay, both those which can and those which cannot be explained, have been peculiarly in evidence during...The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined by...
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Biological Analogies in History

Theodore Roosevelt - Biology - 1910 - 56 pages
...Arab and \ Biological Analogies in History I \ Moor, had on the whole been that of successful ag^ sion against Europe. More than a century went by after...The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined by...
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The Outlook, Volume 95

United States - 1910 - 1090 pages
...aggression against Europe. More than a century passed after the voyages of Columbus before the master)- in war began to pass from the Asiatic to the European....The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined by...
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The Marvelous Career of Theodore Roosevelt

1910 - 444 pages
...the long run to vanish. But very much of it represents not a merely political but an ethnic conquest. During this period substantially all of the world...stock, first one and then another has taken the lead. "Comparison is often made between the empire of Britain and the empire of Rome. When judged relatively...
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The Shipley collection of scientific papers, Volume 331

Zoology - 1910 - 56 pages
...The first exception of any consequence is the wonderful rise of Japan within the last generation—a phenomenon unexampled in history; for both in blood...The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their % flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful'. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined...
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Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission

Michael Adas - History - 2009 - 566 pages
...averred that by combining what was "strongest in [their] ancient character and traditions," they had "assimilated with curious completeness most of the...that have given power and leadership to the West," and thereby positioned Japan to "take its place as a great civilized power of a formidable type."71...
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