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

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MILITARY ORDERS
“. . . And
conquest is
dragged
captive
through
the deep”
always alike, however: the same pressure
may have flung forth the Huns and the
Normans, but the consequences in Europe
were different: and where one age has
been involved in a World War, on another
had burst the glory of the Crusades.
Brotherhood in vows was familiar to the
age; equality of opportunity awaited the
self-dedicated, in the cloister or in the front
of battle; the tie of danger not only shared
but sought together, the thirst of self-
devotion slaked at a common cup, the
ecstasy of immolation for God’s glory and
the world’s ransom—all these were ordi-
nary experience from the tenth century to
the thirteenth, and that not in Europe only,
but on the northern shore of Africa and in
the western lands of Asia and among the
islands of the midland sea.
As there were many pilgrimages, so
there were many crusades—Ferdinand the
Saint spoke well when he replied in this
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