William Hendry Stowell
Published: 2016-12-03
Total Pages: 718
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Excerpt from The Eclectic Review, Vol. 12: July-December, 1856 Sion which would far exceed the bounds of a review article especially as some of them are of a nature to involve an examination of the most obscure principles of the psychological constitution of man. For indeed there are few phenomena more strange, or apparently more inexplicable, than the syn chronons existence of the most brilliant period of Spanish literature, and of the darkest days of the Spanish Inquisition: or again more remarkable than the recent incapacity of Spain to produce a new intellectual era, in spite of the numerous and fearful convulsions which have stirred up its society from the lowest depths. In any other country of Europe the changes of government, which have lately taken place there, would have rought the heart of the nation itself into evidence; and the latter would, in more or less direct manner, have modified the outward expression of society to its own age. Why should this law cease to hold on the south side of the Pyrenees Was Napoleon really correct when he said that Africa began there P It was not so formerly - why should it be so now and yet, alas! It seems but hoping against hope to argue that Spain will yet for man years shake off the dew-drops from her mane, or again play a leadin part on the great stage of the world, upon which such ignob e farces have been played out of late years. There is a strange fascination in these inquiries, but we have now to deal with them only in an incidental, subsidiary manner; so we turn to our more immediate subject, the writings of Fray Fe '06. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.