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Henry Watterson: “Traversing the older countries, especially Spain, the most illustrative, the wayfarer is met at all points by what seems…”

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Traversing the older countries, especially Spain, the most illustrative, the wayfarer is met at all points by what seems not merely the logic of events, but the common law of the inevitable.
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Henry Watterson
Democratic · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

He observes that traveling through older countries reveals the inevitable patterns of historical events.

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