So at the close of the eighteenth century it was apparent that another epoch in Cuban history was at hand. North America had been swept by revolution. South America was at the brink of revolution. Europe was convulsed with revolution. Amid all these, Cuba was like the calm spot at the centre of a whirlpool. Changes had occurred on every side, but she had been left unchanged. Yet every one of those changes had, deeply and irrevocably, though perhaps imperceptibly, wrought its effect upon her. The potency and the promise of national life were within her. Thus far everything that she had accomplished had been accredited to Spain. But the time was at hand when she would claim her own. During three centuries Cuba had produced the flower of the Spanish race; as indeed from time immemorial colonies had been wont to produce stronger men, in their comparatively primitive and healthful conditions, than the more sophisticated and often decadent Mother Countries. But they had all been reckoned Spaniards. Now the time was coming, and was at hand, when Cubans would be reckoned Cubans, by all the world as well as by themselves. The errors of Spain were not of Cuba's choosing. The disasters of Spain were not of Cuba's inviting. The decadence of Spain was not of Cuba's working. If in the downfall of Spanish power Cuba saw the opportunity for her own uprising, it was not that she herself had compassed that downfall, but only that she chose not needlessly to let herself be involved therein. As Spain weakened, Cuba girded and strengthened herself, and made herself ready to stand alone. THE END OF VOLUME TWO INDEX to Volumes 1 thru 4 Abarzuza, Sr. proposes reforms for Cuba, IV, 6. Abreu. Marta and Rosalie, patriotism of, IV, 25. Academy of Sciences, Havana, picture of, IV, 364. Adams, John Quincy, enunciates American policy toward Cuba, II, 258; portrait, 259; on Cuban annexation, 327. Aglona, Prince de. Governor, II, 363. Agramonte, Aristide, in yellow fever campaign, IV, 172. Agramonte, Enrique, in Cuban Junta, IV, 12. Agramonte, Eugenio Sanchez, sketch and portrait, IV, 362. Agramonte, Francisco, IV, 41. Agramonte, Ignacio, portrait, facing. III, 258. Agriculture, early attention to, I, 173, 224; progress, 234; II, 213; absentee landlords, 214; statistics, 223; discussed in periodicals, 250; rehabilitation of after War of Independence, IV, 147. Aguayo, Geronimo de, I, 161. Aguero, Joaquin de, organizes revolution, III, 72; final defeat, 87. Aguiar, Luis de, II, 60. Aguiera, Jose, I, 295. Aguila, Negra, II, 346. Aguilera, Francisco V., sketch and portrait, III, 173. Aguirre, Jose Maria, filibuster, IV, 55; death, 85. Albemarle, Earl of, expedition against Havana, II, 46; occupies Havana, 78; controversy with Bishop Morell, 83. Alcala, Marcos, I, 310.