A modern writer attributes to the infusion of Saracen blood this characteristic—“este carácter indolente y apático, que nos impede llegar á tiempo en nuestras empresas, ó que no nos consiente llevarlas á termino bien cumplido.”—Madrazo, El pueblo español ha muerto? p. 29 (Santander, 1903).
[1061] Francisco Santos, El No Importe de España, pp. 149, 203 (Madrid, 1668).
[1062] Dávila, Vida de Felipe III, p. 216.
[1063] Pedro Fernández Navarrete, Discursos políticos, fol. 66 (Barcelona, 1621).
See also his later Conservacion de Monarquias, Discurso XLVI (Madrid, 1626) where he states that there were thirty-two universities and more than four thousand grammar-schools where Latin was taught.
[1064] Semanário erúdito, XXVI, 108.—Jovellanos, Informe, p. 154.
[1065] Relazioni Lucchese, p. 89.
[1066] Semanário erúdito, VII, 167, 169.
[1067] Juan de Valera, Disertaciones y Judicios literários, p. 201 (Madrid, 1878).—Reconstitucion de España, p. 29.
[1068] See the very instructive sketch by D. Antonio Rodríguez Villa, “Patiño y Campillo,” Madrid, 1882.