Intellectual Greatness of Moors and Jews Induced by Their Material Prosperity.--Remarkable Development of Agriculture.--New Discoveries in Every Industry.--Mining a Specialty.--The Magnet, Mariner's Compass Mechanical Apparatus.--Spread of Commerce Leads to General Awakening of Europe that Ends Middle Ages. CHAPTER XV. THE INQUISITION 171-188 Jewish and Moorish Intellectual Advance followed by Physical Decline.--This Decline the Cause of Their Downfall.--The Spaniard Again Ruler Over Spain.--The Inquisition Established.--To Escape it, Jews Become "New Christians".--Christianity no Help to the Jews.--Thomas de Torquemada.--The Tortures of the Inquisition.--A Public Burning. CHAPTER XVI. THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS 189-205 Torquemada Resolves Upon Immediate Expulsion of all Unconverted Jews.--The Fatal Edict.--The Spaniards Moved to Pity.--Don Isaac Abarbanel Pleads with the Queen.--The Queen Hesitates.--Torquemada, the Fiend, Conquers Again.--The Ill-fated Jews Seek Among the Dead the Pity which the Living Refuse.--The Departure. CHAPTER XVII. THE DISPERSION OF THE JEWS 206-224 Exiles Transported on Ships.--Heart-rending Scenes on Board a Ship.--Set Ashore on Deserted Islands to Starve.--Starving Jews Given the Choice Between Death and Christianity.--Merciful Italy.--Crafty Portugal.--Torquemada's Edict Eclipsed.--The Expulsion of the Jews From Portugal.--A Condition.--The King's Marriage.--Contract.--Final Expulsion. CHAPTER XVIII EFFECT OF THE EXPULSION 225-240 A Brief Review.--Curse of God Visited Upon Spain.--The Church a False Prophet.--With Expulsion of the Jews and Moors Spanish Prosperity Ceases.--Spaniards Experience some of the Sufferings which the Jews and Moors had Endured.--Spain Makes Amends.--The Moors Lost.--The Jews Live. The Jews and Moors in Spain. CHAPTER I. A DAY IN CORDOVA. SIX AND EIGHT AND TEN CENTURIES BACK IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY.--OUR ENTRANCE INTO SPAIN.--A MIRACLE.--THE BEAUTIFUL GUADALQUIVIR.--OUR BRONZE COMPLEXIONED OARSMAN.--FAIR CORDOVA.--THE CITY OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES.--NIGHT.--A SERENADE.--OUR DEPARTURE.