resources into wealth and the use of public wealth as if it 
     were private; archaic and static ways of living and the 
     hasty adoption of modern devices produced outside of 
     Spain. The electric light, the typewriter, and the fountain-
     pen were popularized in Spain more quickly than in France. 
     On the plane of the highest human values we find a 
     manifestation of this sharp contrast in the poetic 
     inwardness of Saint John of the Cross or of the quietist 
     Miguel de Molinos, and the series of daring assaults to be 
     found in Quevedo and Góngora, or in Goya’s artistic 
     transformation of the outer world.

     The Spaniards are not in the least averse to the 
acceptance and import of things and ideas from outside: “In 
1480 Ferdinand and Isabella authorized the free importation of 
foreign books.” Later they were subjected to censorship, and