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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 . . .