Date of Award
4-1937
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
John O. Riedl
Second Advisor
William J. Grace
Abstract
We find in Tennyson's Ulysses a prototype of the typical adventurous man of that glorious Spain of the Age of Discovery: the Spain from whose shores, not only the stern and practical Columbus set sail, but also the romantic and adventurous Spain of Ponce de Leon whose search for the elusive Fountain of Youth culminated in the discovery and exploration of the hitherto unknown Florida which now, by some strange paradox, has become the fountain of youth for modern business worried de Leons. Spain indeed, during her Golden Age, did not "rust unburnished not to shine in use". Her ships commanded the bounding main; her soldiers the strange lands. It was a Spaniard, Balboa who crossed the Isthmus of Panama to be the first white man to gaze upon the vast Pacific; it was a Spaniard, Magellan who, with five frail crafts, circled the globe; and it was a Spaniard, Cotez who conquered Montezuma, thus opening the fruitful treasury of Mexico, while a fellow Spanish adventurer was founding, in Lima Peru, a new Spanish Empire.
Recommended Citation
Shea, Daniel, "A Philosophical Delineation of Some of the Juridical, Political, and Economic Problems Arising During the Period of Discovery and Nationalization" (1937). Bachelors’ Theses. 2122.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/2122
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of The Marquette University in Partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.