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"THE MAN WITH THE HOE"
| When we think of the righteous indignation which stirred in Edwin Markham's soul as he contemplated Millet's famous painting of the French peasant with the hoe, and saw in the dejection of that figure ages of misery and repression, this Bolivian counterpart toiling with a still cruder instrument in the sour fields around Potosi draws the imagination down to still profounder depths |
AGRICULTURE HAS NOT GREATLY ADVANCED SINCE THE INCA CULTURE
| One can understand the frequent lamentation of Bolivian statesmen over "nuestro pobre pais" when observing the primitive futility of the agriculturalists. It is certain that the plough here used to break up the soil shows little if any advance upon the agricultural instruments common to the Bolivians when agriculture was an affair of State in the Inca regime, before the coming of Pizarro and his conquistadores, who so speedily destroyed that mild but intelligent native system |