Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe
CHAPTER LII.
ON THE FREEDOM OF LANGUAGE UNDER THE SPANISH MONARCHY.
Influence of doctrines on society--Flattery lavished on power--Danger of this flattery--Liberty of speech on this point in Spain during the last three centuries--Mariana--Saavedra--In the absence of religion and morality, the most rigorous political doctrines are incapable of saving society--Why the conservative schools of our days are powerless--Seneca--Cicero--Hobbes--Bellarmin, 311