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...Constitution. Historians recalled that this much-maligned document may be looked upon as the written expression of the spirit of nationalism, which has continued to smolder fiercely in Mexico through centuries of foreign oppression and exploitation. Mexico City was actually founded almost a century before Europeans were informed that there existed an American Continent. Long before the Pilgrim Fathers arrived to dwell in bigoted rusticity among savages, the American tribes calling themselves Mexica or Azteca had created the Mexican Empire and evolved a high and urban state of civilization, with courts of justice, a highly developed agricultural, mechanical and artistic...
...discussion, the verity and falsity of thought is brought to light. When kept within the heart, ideas smolder in darkness and obscurity; but when revealed by the light of discussion, they may shine with their reason or be rejected with their falsehood...