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word, the English world understands that print means applied
knowledge, while the Latin world has always held print at bay,
preferring to use it to enhance the drama of oral disputation or
military virtuosity. Nowhere can this deep rejection of the print
message be better seen than in The Structure of Spanish
History by Americo Castro.
The Spaniards had been immunized against typography by their
age-old quarrel with the Moors.
* As the Jacobins got the military message of print as
lineal levelling aggression, the English were applying print to
production and markets. So while the English were extending
print to prices, shop-keeping and do-it-yourself hand books of
every kind, the Spaniards had abstracted from print the
message of gigantism and supra-human effort. The Spaniard