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Title: Makers of South America
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Daniels, Margarette
Subjects: South America -- Biography South America -- History
Publisher: New York : Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ation in Englandto fit them as teachers. But Bolivars influence waswaning and there is no record that anything cameof his plan. The Lancasterian system reached a prema-ture end of usefulness and disappeared with nothingto take its place. The church, the mightiest power inthe state, reached out to crush the initiative of thepeople, and the priests followed the Spaniards astyrants in the land. They no longer bought Bibles.They burned them in the public squares. Thomsons eight years made a slight oasis in thebarren history of Spanish-American absolutism. Itwas the time when Protestantism, and the Bible, and loo MAKERS OF SOUTH AMERICA religious liberty might have been put there to stay.They were years of wonderful opportunity. Thedoors were opened a wide crack to let the light shinein and then slammed shut. Progressive forces eversince have been trying to pry them open again. Single-handed, James Thomson labored in the one goldendecade of the Continent of Lost Opportunity. ALLEX GARDINER
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ALLEX F. GARDINER ALLEN GARDINER When the Inca chieftains of Peru fought their waysouthward among rebel Indian tribes, they found Hv-ing in lower Chile a race of men who refused to beconquered. A little later the Spanish invaders madethe same discovery. Here were a stubborn, indepen-dent people who loved their liberty and meant to keepit. They proved to be as vigorous warriors as theSpaniards themselves, and quick to imitate theirweapons and methods of warfare. So great an honordid these Indians consider death in battle that theirchiefs had to hold them back rather than urge themforward. One of their generals, when dying, orderedthat his body be burned, so that he might rise to theclouds and there keep on fighting with the souls of deadSpaniards. These Indians, with bodies of iron andsouls of tigers, are the Araucanians, the only nativesof the Western Hemisphere who were able to resistEuropean invaders. They have always regarded out-siders as beings inferior to themselves, and this ra

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