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Excerpt from Sword of Flame, Vol. 3: The Age of Animosity, 1547 1570
F discovery confers right of possession, Spain held first and best title to the New World, a right she had won through the devoted service of an Italian greater than any Spaniard of them all. Within a century, however, she had taken five billion dollars in treasure from America - and used it to drive the spirit of freedom from earth. Her sole aim had been to plunder; ruin and extermination marched in the van of the Spanish explorers. Colonization meant nothing to her; the proud expanse now thronged with English-speaking people remained untenanted. Spain herself scorned it because of its lack of precious metals; and she forbade its settlement by any other. Under her domination no surprise need be felt if the enlightened men of that age looked upon the discovery of America as a curse to mankind.
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