, pacquiao, manny pacquiao is the lightweight boxing champion of the world, a good athlete, and who elseough for us to feel like the greatest nation. we have hundreds of outstanding athletes who have achieved success in sports. much more than pakiau, besides this , great scientists who moved world science forward, the greatest writers, composers , artists, generals, statesmen, sometimes one such name is enough to glorify any nation, and we have hundreds, thousands of such names, like no country, we have given a lot to humanity, and like no other country, we have often been in a state of self-abasement, or even self-blame. one of the most deplorable features of our peculiar civilization is that we are still discovering truths that have become hackneyed in other countries, and even among peoples much more backward than us. look around all the centuries we have lived, all the spaces we have occupied, and you will not find a single riveting memory, not a single venerable monument that would powerfully speak about the past and paint it vividly and picturesquely. we live only within the limits