Excerpt from There Is Something in the Air Unconsciously the Spaniard struck the key note of the whole situation when he uttered those few words It is something in the air - and while in his own heart no responsive chord thrilled at their sound, to us they convey all the meaning of an axiomatic truth. It would be hard, indeed, to explain those words to a thoroughgoing Spaniard, because he could never grasp the full extent and meaning of what the something is that the Cuban patriots breathe; but it would be even more difficult to explain them to an American, for they would beunderstood so fully and so quickly from their mere mention that an attempt to define that something would be as futile as an attempt to demonstrate one of the self-evident propositions of Euclid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.