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Lord of ferrets. Brought to you by the Thomas Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries (Students Against a Democratic Society).

Formerly Western civilization
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    1. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015

      In June 1503, on his fourth voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus and all his crew,

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    2. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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      @RadishMag … including his brother and his 14-year-old son, were stranded on the island of Jamaica — worm-eaten ships damaged in battle,

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    3. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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      @RadishMag … finally crippled by a tropical storm. After two months, he dispatched a messenger, in a canoe, to find help.

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    4. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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      @RadishMag Eight months later, receiving no word, Columbus wrote a letter, addressed to the King of Spain,

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    5. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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      @RadishMag but which he believed would be found only after his death: “If God be so merciful as to conduct my messenger to Spain,

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    6. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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      @RadishMag … I doubt not but he will convince your Highness that this will not only be a New Spain, but the discovery of a whole world

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      ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015

      @RadishMag … of subjects, lands and wealth, greater than man’s unbounded fancy could ever comprehend, or avarice itself covet;

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        2. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … but he cannot express the anguish and afflictions of my body and mind; the misery and dangers of my son, brother and friends.

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        3. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag “Already have we been confined ten months in this place, lodged on the open decks of our ships,

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        4. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … that are run on shore and lashed together; those of my men that were in health have mutinied,

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        5. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … my friends that were faithful are mostly sick and dying; all are likely to perish by hunger.

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        6. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag These chains are all the treasures I have, and they shall be buried with me, if I chance to have a coffin or a grave.

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        7. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag “O glorified Saints of God, that know my innocence and see my sufferings here, have mercy,

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        8. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … for though this present age is envious or obdurate, surely those that are to come will pity me, when they are told

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        9. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … that Christopher Columbus, with his own fortune, ran the hazard of his own and his brother’s lives,

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        10. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … in ten years, and four voyages — and yet was left to perish, all but his chains being taken from him;

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        11. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … so that he who gave Spain another world, had neither safety in it, nor yet a home for himself, nor his wretched family:

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        12. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … but, should Heaven still persecute me, and seem displeased with what I have done, and as a punishment

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        13. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … bring my life to a period in this miserable place, yet do you, good angels, bring this letter to my Queen.

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        14. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag She knows how much I have done and what I have suffered for her glory and service.”

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        15. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag Rescue came in June 1504. Columbus and his surviving crew had been marooned for twelve months.

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        16. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag He returned to Spain in November, and died two years later. A young Thomas Carlyle described him in this way:

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        17. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag “It is impossible… for any one to write a history of Columbus, how imperfectly soever,

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        18. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … without intermingling something of poetry with his narrative. The character of Columbus,

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        19. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … so richly furnished with intellectual and moral endowments, his fate, and the great things he accomplished,

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        20. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … are of themselves poetical. [The enthusiastic heart and warm imagination, that supported him so long and so bravely —]

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        21. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag To view him, after long years of anxious waiting, at length embarked with his slender crew, —

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        22. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … alone with them upon the wide and wasteful deep, which no keel had ever ploughed, no human eyes had ever seen before;

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        23. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag … yet bearing fearlessly on, destined to discover a new world, to found new empires, and to change the fate of the old…”

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        24. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag While the present age may be envious or obdurate, we celebrate the discovery of a New World by the great explorer:

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        25. ferretlord‏ @RadishMag 13 Oct 2015
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          @RadishMag Christopher Columbus.

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