The sailors of the Mediterranean made themselves at home in all parts of the world.

Upon their sea man had developed his highest energies.

Ancient Greece had converted human flesh into spiritual steel.
Exactly the same landscapes and races bordered the two shores.

The mountains and the flowers on both shores were identical.

The Catalan, the Provencal and the South Italian were more like the inhabitants of the African coast than their kindred who lived inland back of them.
This fraternity had shown itself instinctively in the thousand-year war.