There was, in a way, some sort of a cabalistic element in the pulse between England and Spain. It wasn't, however, anything mystic but simply the role of Sephardic Jews in the making of England as a world power.
What Elizabeth I was much
interested in --according to Sombart-- was not the mystical side in the Hebrews but a more physical side.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–