And this my tower of Monterrey speaks to me of our Renaissance, of the Spanish renaissance, of the eternal essence of Spain, and tells me to say my Spanish self and to affirm that if life is dream, dream is the only thing that abides, and that the rest, all that is not dream, is nothing but a process of digestion that passes away, as sorrow and joy, hate and love, memory and hope, pass away. Yes, life without dream is nothing but digestion and respiration, breath that vanishes. Breath, air, _pneuma_, _anima_, _spiritus_, such are the names that have been given to the life that animates the body but is not dream; and the breath passes away, but the dream abides. “Life is dream!” affirmed the man, the Spaniard, who believed in the eternal and the substantial, and those who do not believe in it say in the foolishness of their hearts: “Life is breath!” And the tower of Monterrey, my tower of Monterrey, my tower of the Spanish renaissance, of renaissant Spanishness, tells me that life is not breath that passes away and is lost, but dream that abides and triumphs. When I go forth in the morning and the tower says to me: “Here am I!” I, beholding it, say to it: “Here am I!” APPENDIX The foregoing essays are derived from the following works. “The Spirit of Castile”--_En Torno al Casticismo_, 1895, _Ensayos_, Vol. I. “Spanish Individualism”--_El Individualismo Español_ (_A propósito del libro_ de Martin A. S. Hume, “The Spanish People: Their Origin, Growth and Influence,” London, 1901), 1902, _Ensayos_, Vol. IV. “Some Arbitrary Reflections upon Europeanization”--_Sobre la Europeizacion_ (_Arbitrariedades_), 1906, _Ensayos_, Vol. VII. “The Spanish Christ”--_Mi Religión y Otros Ensayos_ (_El Cristo Español_), 1910. “The Sepulchre of Don Quixote”--Introduction to 2nd edition of _La Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho_, 1913. (Originally published in _La España Moderna_, February, 1906.) “The Helmet of Mambrino”--_La Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho_, Part I, Chap. XLV. “Don Quixote’s Niece”--_La Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho_, Part II, Chap. LXXIV. “The Religion of Quixotism”--_Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida_ (_Don Quijote en la Tragi-Comedia Europea Contemporánea_), 1912. “Large and Small Towns”--_Por Tierras de Portugal y de España_ (_Grandes y Pequeñas Ciudades_), 1908. “To My Readers”--_Soliloquios y Conversaciones_ (_A Mis Lectores_), 1911. “Soliloquies”--_Soliloquios y Conversaciones_ (_Soliloquios_ and _Desahogo Lirico_), 1911. “My Religion”--_Mi Religión y Otros Ensayos_, 1910. “Solitude”--_Soledad_, 1905, _Ensayos_, Vol. VI. “Intellectuality and Spirituality”--_Intellectualidad y Espiritualidad_, 1904, _Ensayos_, Vol. IV. “The Materialism of the Masses”--_Mi Religión y Otros Ensayos_, (_Materialismo Popular_, 1909). “The Man of Flesh and Bone,” “The Problem of Immortality,” “Creative Faith”--_Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida_, 1912.