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expressed itself in the emancipation of women which was
accomplished by assigning men and women to the same jobs.
It was thereby hoped they would be free. But this mechanical
operation of the human spirit was also felt and furiously
resisted in the first age of print. “One might almost say,” writes
Leo Lowenthal in Literature and the Image of Man  (p. 41),
“that the prevailing philosophy of human nature since the
Renaissance has been based on the conception of each
individual as a “deviant case whose existence consists very
largely in his efforts to assert his personality against the
restrictive and levelling claims of society.”

     Before considering the evidence from the world of
Cervantes offered by Lowenthal, here are two peripheral items
that also bear on these issues. Writing of Oxford University in
the sixteenth century, C. E. Mallet opens his second volume of