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resources into wealth and the use of public wealth as if it
were private; archaic and static ways of living and the
hasty adoption of modern devices produced outside of
Spain. The electric light, the typewriter, and the fountain-
pen were popularized in Spain more quickly than in France.
On the plane of the highest human values we find a
manifestation of this sharp contrast in the poetic
inwardness of Saint John of the Cross or of the quietist
Miguel de Molinos, and the series of daring assaults to be
found in Quevedo and Góngora, or in Goya’s artistic
transformation of the outer world.
The Spaniards are not in the least averse to the
acceptance and import of things and ideas from outside: “In
1480 Ferdinand and Isabella authorized the free importation of
foreign books.” Later they were subjected to censorship, and