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Brazil still hasn’t produced its great refounding.
We've just completed 200 years of our land's founding, and our sails have never been so far from its winds, or our ears so deaf to its appeals.
Brazil's process of independence, from 1808 to 1822, consisted of a transfer, to Brazil, of the ancient Portuguese imperial dream. It’s a templary one, a missionary one, bearing a call to reestablish, here in the Americas, the "Fifth Empire" prophecies foretold, uniting an adventurous sense of faith and a humble, persevering sense of reality—a blend so common to the Portuguese spirit. Inspired by this dream, the process of Brazilian independence had this unusual nature: It was both the creator of something never seen before and the protector of traditions dating to the dawn of time....