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Updated: June 16, 2025
In the world-wide effect of the discovery, the peopling of the earth at last according to Heaven's long-published and resisted design, Fate offered poetry a theme broad and high, yet piquant, and various as the dolphin and the rainbow. I cannot sing this song, because I am neither Lamartine, nor Hugo, nor Walter Scott.
Reade saw a theme for a great epic 'in the sudden return of a society far more complex, artificial, and conventional than Pericles ever dreamed of, to elements more primitive than Homer had to deal with; in this, with its novelty and nature and strange contrasts; in the old barbaric force and native colour of the passions as they burst out undisguised around the gold; in the hundred and one personal combats and trials of cunning; in a desert peopled and cities thinned by the magic of cupidity; in a huge army collected in ten thousand tents, not as heretofore by one man's constraining will, but each human unit spurred into the crowd by his own heart; in the "siege of gold" defended stoutly by rock and disease; in the world-wide effect of the discovery, the peopling of the earth at last according to Heaven's long-published and resisted design.
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