A wounded nation but not one stricken to death. She is recovering. Let her but be patient and aspire slowly; disciplined, tried in the fire and purified, by living without the ceaseless upheavals of the past century, by industry, by commerce, with no encumbering colonies to drain her blood, with the Catalans calling the Castilians "_paisanos_," she will get back her former strength and _brio_. Her literature, her art, are lifting their heads.
My prayer for Spain in her rehabilitation is, that she may not diverge from her national spirit and traditions, may modern ideas not change her unworldliness and her stoical endurance, "_su esencia inmortal y su propio carácter_." May she guard her faith, her glory in the past and her aspiration for the future, the faith of the Cross that has struck deeper root here than in any spot on earth, but remembering always that her own greatest saint warns her: "In the spiritual life not to advance is to go back." May she never lose the virile independence of character that so distinguishes her people, the pride of simple manhood that looks out of the eyes of her honorable peasantry and makes their innate courtesy. No nation was ever formed so completely by the chivalry of the Middle Ages as Spain. May she always be _España la heróica_!
Africa, 74, 86, 87, 178, 230, 245, 246, 337, 409, 416, 417
Ajustina of Aragon ("Maid of Saragossa"), 381
Alacón, Pedro Antonio de, 151, 328, 335, 336, 337
Alcalá de Henares, 28, 67, 73, 142, 238, 244, 246, 249, 342, 372
Alfonso XII, 179, 180, 217, 333, 337, 343
Alfonso XIII, 50, 174, 180, 181, 182, 217, 287, 289, 290, 291, 292, 351, 355
Alhambra, the, 86, 258, 265-272, 280, 396
Alvarez de Castro, Mariano, 426, 427, 428
America, the U. S. of, 9, 16, 18, 41, 64, 128, 140, 209, 332, 370, 397, 411
America, South, 90, 177, 211, 248, 290, 319, 332, 364, 365, 366, 395, 397
Andalusia, 2, 37, 87, 102, 105, 112, 151, 178, 189, 225, 230, 242, 257 259, 316, 317, 319, 333, 336, 343
Architecture, 9, 36, 42, 43, 48, 54, 81, 91, 147, 151, 232, 295, 385, 393, 400, 403, 421. _See_ Gothic, Romanesque, Plateresque
Armory, Madrid, the Royal, 114, 220, 226, 227, 228
Asturias, 4, 79-103, 105, 112, 267, 341, 346
Asturias, Prince of, 84, 85, 288, 291, 324