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Spain began to attenuate its lines of communication with the
rest of the world. Castro explains (p. 664) how:
The Spaniards have expanded and contracted the
objective zone of their life in a dramatic rhythm: they are
not inclined to industrial activity, nor will they agree to
live without industry. At certain moments the outward
sallies, the efforts to break out of themselves, . . . give
rise to problems that have no “normal” mode of solution.
Perhaps the most spectacular effect of print in the
Renaissance was the militant campaign of counter-Reformation
mounted by Spaniards like St. Ignatius Loyola. His religious
order, the first since printing began, embodied much visual
stress in religious exercises, intense literary training, and
military homogeneity of organization. Writing his Apologie of