Word: caminos
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...parroquia, particularly interesting among Mexico's colonial churches because it was completed by the men who began it. Borda, a heavy speculator, went broke several times before he went broke for good. But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped. The gold leaf of the parroquia came from the Philippines...
...fair question is, what are we going to do about it? The answer must be that there is no "camino real"; there is no certain method that could be applied with confidence. Improvement is bound to come, it is in the nature of things, but it will probably come slowly. That there has already been substantial improvement along these lines is certain; that future improvement will be more sound and more rapid in proportion as people under stand the need and work to fill it, is also certain. If the American people as a whole should once get it into...