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SUNLIGHT 145
tainty of an eternal life. Others have at least re-
moved his sting by their feeling that man will continue
to live from generation to generation through his
deeds. But few of us are so poor as to be obliged to
encounter him empty-handed.
The Andalusian-is poor in comparison, but to make
up for this he is infinitely rich toward life itself!
Even the most penniless proletarian can say: “I have
lived,” and he can point to his joy in nature, his hu-
manity, the personal superiority with which he regards
the petty stings of life. You can approach hundreds of
persons of the common people and exchange comments
with them on the beauties of the surrounding natural
scene, and each one of them will express his delight in
rich picturesque terms and phrases. No human enjoy-
ment remains strange to them, for they are poor.
Hence the fullness of human kindness in their
spirits! And, not having wasted their own lives in
training themselves to be the surly slaves of an insur-
mountable aggregation of petty needs, they cannot be
deprived of their happiness even by Death’s sudden
intervention. They have taken their happiness day by
day.
It may be partly for this reason that Death is not so
intimate a concern of theirs as he is of ours. They do
not feel the need of a solution. Nevertheless their
victory over Death is an easy one. They remain care-
free and happy. They have the incomparable faculty
of forgetting.
It was Dumas who said that Africa begins at the
Pyrenees. This is quite right, but it would be just as
reasonable to say that Spain begins at the Straits of
Gibraltar. Anglo-Teuton civilization has undertaken
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