King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

IN SPAIN
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tiersmen, who were bound together by
mutual vows and a common austerity of
life, and who kept the outposts of Islam
with sleepless ward. This may be. It is
hard to say where first the use obtained.
In the interchange of perpetual warfare
between noble enemies customs and usage
must have grown much alike, in Syria or
Egypt, in Sicily or Spain, and the florid
Berbers and the dark Iberians have imi-
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tated each other as well as emulated. There
were almogavares in the Pyrenees and
assassins in the Lebanon. Wherever the
intermittent but endless war went on, it
moulded men’s observance and tempered
their spirits, by a like process, to a like
ideal. Through long lifetimes, through gen-
“A terrible
erations and centuries, the conflict contin-
and
ued and resumed, necessary to man’s life as
food and fire, refining in its emotion, its
issues, its sanctions, as the love of lovers
and the bitterness of martyrs. Over-
population, we are told, and the want of
raw materials, produce the convulsions of
history—a high birth-rate and the law of
diminishing returns. The outcome is not
splendid
trust ”
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