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El orbe hispano nunca se vino abajo, ni siquiera a la ca|da del imperio espan‹  ol, sino que se ha multiplicado en numerosas facetas de ensanches todav|a insospechados† No somos pueblos en estado de candor, que se deslumbren fa  cilmente con los instrumentos externos de que se acompan‹  a la cultura, sino pueblos que heredan una vieja civilizacio  n y exigen la excelencia misma de la cultura. The Hispanic world never crumbled, not even after the Spanish Empire fell, but instead has multiplied itself in broad ways that are still largely unknown† Our people are not naive and are not blinded by the external tools that go together with culture; we are rather the inheritors of an old civilization, and we demand the excellence proper to culture itself.

- Alfonso Reyes
Pa  ginas escogidas,'Valor de la literatura hispanoamericana' (translated as'TheValue of Hispanic American Literature').