word, the English world understands that print means applied 
knowledge, while the Latin world has always held print at bay, 
preferring to use it to enhance the drama of oral disputation or 
military virtuosity. Nowhere can this deep rejection of the print 
message be better seen than in The Structure of Spanish  
History  by Americo Castro.

The Spaniards had been immunized against typography by their 
age-old quarrel with the Moors.

*     As the Jacobins got the military message of print as 
lineal levelling aggression, the English were applying print to 
production and markets. So while the English were extending 
print to prices, shop-keeping and do-it-yourself hand books of 
every kind, the Spaniards had abstracted from print the 
message of gigantism and supra-human effort. The Spaniard