It is too busy with its greed and gain to think, or to feel, on any abstract subject.

That which does not appeal to it in the concrete is of no interest at all.
Just as in the days of Charles V and Philip II, all things yielded to the theologian's misconception of the spiritual life so in these days of the Billionaires all things spiritual and abstract yield to what they call the progress of the universe and the leading of the times.

Under their rule we have had extraordinary movement just as under the lords of the Palatinate and the Escurial--the medieval union of the devils of bigotry and power--Europe, which was but another name for Spain, had extraordinary movement.

We know where it ended with Spain.

Whither is it leading us?
Are we traveling the same road?
Let us hope not.