Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain
With regard to knowledge and the pro gress of social habits, Spain was at least a century behind the other n tions of the cow tinent. The distant and ah ost insular situav tion of the country, and the severity'of its religious institutions, had prevented the Spaniards from taking part in the disputes and controversies Which had agitated and enlightened Europe during' the sixteenth century.' They scarcely thought more in the eighteenth of the philosophical spirit which had been one of the' causes of the revolution in'france.
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