Two English Seminaries  in 1581, Cardinal Allen explains the new 
militancy of missionary zeal among Catholics: “Books opened 
the way.” The book as a militant missionary affair did appeal to 
the Spaniard who yet rejected commerce and industry. The 
Spaniard, according to Castro (p. 624), has always manifested 
hostility towards the written word:

     The Spaniard wants a system of justice based on value 
     judgements, not on firm and rationally deduced principles. 
     It is not accident that casuistry was fostered by the 
     Spanish Jesuits, nor that the Frenchman Pascal should 
     find this casuistry perversely immoral. It is written laws 
     that the Spaniard fears and despises: “I find twenty 
     chapters against you and only one that is with you,” says 
     a lawyer to the unfortunate litigant in the Rimado de  
     palacio  by Pero López de Ayala . . .