Spain began to attenuate its lines of communication with the 
rest of the world. Castro explains (p. 664) how:

          The Spaniards have expanded and contracted the 
     objective zone of their life in a dramatic rhythm: they are 
     not inclined to industrial activity, nor will they agree to 
     live without industry. At certain moments the outward 
     sallies, the efforts to break out of themselves, . . . give 
     rise to problems that have no “normal” mode of solution.

     Perhaps the most spectacular effect of print in the 
Renaissance was the militant campaign of counter-Reformation 
mounted by Spaniards like St. Ignatius Loyola. His religious 
order, the first since printing began, embodied much visual 
stress in religious exercises, intense literary training, and 
military homogeneity of organization. Writing his Apologie of