The true memorial of the Moors is seen in the desolate tracts of utter barrenness, where once the Moslem [sic] grew luxuriant vines and olives and yellow ears of corn; in a stupid, ignorant population where once wit and learning flourished; in the general stagnation and degradation of a people which has hopelessly fallen in the scale of nations and deserved its humiliation.
S. Lane-Poole, quoted in R. Irwin, The Alhambra (2004), 18
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